old school

Flamewars, 1839 Style

I’ve heard a lot of people say that the need to have arguments in public and win popular support is…

15 years ago

Multitasking in the “Mad Men” Era

Here’s a great video from 1963 featuring the great-granddad of today’s web servers and cloud computing systems. It was just…

15 years ago

The “High-Brow/Low-Brow” Chart

I don't know when this chart classifying the spectrum of tastes from high-brow to low-brow was created, but the graphic…

15 years ago

Portable Computing in the “Mad Men” Era

Are there any computers available today that come in that particular shade of blue, with matching chair? Click the photo…

15 years ago

The Road to Success

I saw the illustrated map titled The Road to Success on the Strange Maps site and thought that there can’t…

15 years ago