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01/27/2012 "10 Bizarre PC Designs" (PCMag)
01/23/2012 "Why History Needs Software Piracy" (Technologizer)
01/22/2012 "The 12 Greatest PC Shareware Games of All Time" (PC World)
01/22/2012 "10 Educational PC Games of the 1980s" (PCMag)
01/17/2012 "Evolution of the Solid-State Drive" (PC World)
01/01/2012 "How the iPod Was Born" (Macworld, January 2012)
12/25/2011 "Great Gifts: Computers on Christmas Morning" (PCMag)
12/11/2011 "Computer Space and the Dawn of the Arcade Video Game" (Technologizer)
12/11/2011 "10 Classic Game Console Mods" (PCMag)
11/15/2011 "Secret Lives of the Intel 4004" (Technologizer)
10/23/2011 "The Birth of the iPod" (Macworld)
10/23/2011 "The iPod as an Iconic Cultural Force" (Macworld)
10/23/2011 "iPod Oddities" (Technologizer)
10/12/2011 "The 10 Greatest MS-DOS Games of All Time" (PC World)
09/24/2011 "10 Bizarre Video Game Accessories" (PCMag)
09/04/2011 "10 Tiny PCs of the 1980s" (PCMag)
08/28/2011 "The 10 Greatest Super NES Games of All Time" (PCMag)
08/12/2011 "10 Classic Portable Games of the 1980s" (PCMag)
08/11/2011 "Can You Do Real Work With the 30-Year-Old IBM 5150?" (PC World)
08/11/2011 "IBM PC Oddities" (Technologizer)
07/24/2011 "The Forsaken World of Computer-Themed Board Games" (PCMag)
07/10/2011 "Donkey Kong Oddities" (Technologizer)
07/09/2011 "12 Electronic Toy Robots of the 1980s" (PCMag)
06/26/2011 "Kids' Computers Through The Ages" (PC World)
06/22/2011 "Sonic the Hedgehog Oddities" (Technologizer)
06/18/2011 "12 Ultra-Nerdy Watches of Yore" (PCMag)
06/13/2011 "John Linnell of They Might Be Giants: A Technologizer Tech Interview" (Technologizer)
05/29/2011 "Head-Tripping 3D Art of the Early 1990s" (PCMag)
05/19/2011 "A Tale of Two Apple Stores (The First Two)" (Macworld)
05/16/2011 "The 11 Most Influential Online Worlds of All Time" (PC World)
05/15/2011 "The Secret World of Alternative Operating Systems" (Technologizer)
05/14/2011 "10 Unreleased Video Game Consoles" (PCMag)
04/30/2011 "The Feminine Side of Game Design: 10 Female Game Designers" (PCMag)
04/21/2011 "The History of Atari Computers" (PC World)
04/17/2011 "PC Pitchmen of the 1980s" (PCMag)
04/17/2011 "15 Amazing Computing Rarities of the 1990s" (Technologizer)
04/03/2011 "10 Strange PC Storage Formats" (PCMag)
04/01/2011 "The Mac Plus Turns 25" (Macworld, April 2011, p.13)
03/13/2011 "The Eerie World of Abandoned Computers" (PCMag)
03/03/2011 "The History of Stereoscopic 3D Gaming" (PC World)
02/27/2011 "10 Victims of Recent Tech" (PCMag)
02/13/2011 "A Gallery of Melted Technology" (PCMag)
02/05/2011 "The Secret World of Embedded Computers" (PCMag)
01/31/2011 "Modems: 60 Years of Hooking Up" (PC World)
01/21/2011 "10 Most Memorable Tech CEOs of the Digital Era" (PCMag)
01/14/2011 "Mac Plus 25th Anniversary: One of Apple's Greatest Computers" (Macworld)
12/23/2010 "Web Browsers Through the Ages" (PC World)
12/19/2010 "The Ghost of Christmas Card Graphics Past" (PCMag)
12/13/2010 "35 Years of the Digital Camera" (PC World)
12/05/2010 "10 Worst Christmas Gift Ideas" (PCMag)
11/21/2010 "10 Things Nerds are Thankful for in 2010" (PCMag)
11/17/2010 "Windows Oddities: 25 Years of Microsoftian Weirdness" (Technologizer)
11/16/2010 "Windows Through The Ages" (PC World)
11/08/2010 "10 Ways Hollywood Gets Tech Wrong" (PCMag)
11/01/2010 "A Brief History of Computer Displays" (PC World)
11/01/2010 "The Cube at 10: Anatomy of a Flop" (Macworld, November 2010)
10/29/2010 "12 Last-Minute Tech Halloween Costume Ideas" (PCMag)
10/21/2010 "10 Awesomely Bad Uses for Dead or Discarded Tech" (PCMag)
10/18/2010 "Nintendo Entertainment System Oddities" (Technologizer)
10/14/2010 "Inside the Nintendo Entertainment System" (PC World)
10/12/2010 "Tech in the Spotlight" (PCMag)
10/05/2010 "Remembering the Macintosh TV" (Macworld)
10/01/2010 "12 Forgotten Online Games" (PCMag)
09/19/2010 "The World's Strangest PC Security Gadgets" (PCMag)
09/13/2010 "OS X Then and Now: What's Changed Since the Beta" (Macworld)
09/13/2010 "Looking Back at OS X's Origins" (Macworld)
09/12/2010 "Super Mario Oddities" (Technologizer)
09/09/2010 "Finding Stuff Online: 20 Years of Innovative Search Engines" (PC World)
09/01/2010 "Classic iPod Mods" (PCMag)
09/01/2010 Pac-Man Killscreen Video (Wired iPad Edition, September 2010)
08/24/2010 "The Secret World of Web Easter Eggs" (PCMag)
08/12/2010 "The Cube at 10: Why Apple's Eye-catching Desktop Flopped" (Macworld)
08/12/2010 "Apple's Cube was Ahead of its Time" (Macworld)
08/01/2010 "The Great Operating System Games" (Technologizer)
07/14/2010 "The World's Weirdest PC Game Controllers" (PC World)
06/29/2010 "Inside the Amiga 1000" (PC World)
06/24/2010 "Four Reasons the LaserWriter Mattered" (Macworld, August 2010)
06/14/2010 "132 Years of the Videophone" (Technologizer)
05/30/2010 "The Evolution of Video Game Media" (PC World)
04/27/2010 "Four Reasons the LaserWriter Mattered" (Macworld)
04/25/2010 "The True Face of Mario" (Technologizer)
03/17/2010 "Inside the Atari 1040STf" (PC World)
02/07/2010 "Fifteen Consumer Electronics Design Mistakes" (Technologizer)
02/07/2010 "The Evolution of Removable Storage" (PC World)
12/21/2009 "Duke Nukem Forever Timeline" (Wired)
12/21/2009 "Duke Nukem Forever Timeline" (Wired, January 2010)
12/20/2009 "The Ghosts of Christmas Games Past" (PC World)
12/10/2009 "Apple's Five Most Important Printers" (Macworld)
12/10/2009 "A Look Back at Apple's Printers" (Macworld)
12/06/2009 "30 Years of Handheld Game Systems" (PC World)
11/29/2009 "Ye Olde Vintage Computer Gift Guide" (PC World)
11/22/2009 "A 1980s Home Computer Family Celebration" (Technologizer)
11/04/2009 "Inside the Atari 800" (PC World)
11/01/2009 "The Five Most Important Mac Portables Ever" (Macworld, December 2009)
10/25/2009 "Classic PCs vs. New PCs: Their True Cost" (Technologizer)
10/04/2009 "Evolution of the Cell Phone" (PC World)
09/22/2009 "The Five Most Important Mac Laptops" (Macworld)
09/22/2009 "Twenty Years of Notable Apple Totables" (Macworld)
09/20/2009 "Inside the Macintosh Portable" (Technologizer)
09/01/2009 "Modern Tools for Vintage Computer Developers" (Game Developer, September 2009)
08/31/2009 "The 11 Most Influential Microprocessors of All Time" (PC World)
08/21/2009 "20 Years Of Evolution: Scott Miller And 3D Realms" (Gamasutra)
08/10/2009 "15 Classic Game Console Design Mistakes" (Technologizer)
07/20/2009 "Lunar Lander Turns Forty" (Technologizer)
07/14/2009 "The 10 Worst Video Game Systems of All Time" (PC World)
06/30/2009 "Opinion: Can Games Become 'Virtual Murder?'" (Gamasutra)
06/14/2009 "15 Classic PC Design Mistakes" (Technologizer)
05/31/2009 "The World's Weirdest Mice" (PC World)
05/25/2009 "From The Past To The Future: Tim Sweeney Talks" (Gamasutra)
04/21/2009 "Happy 20th b-day, Game Boy" (Ars Technica)
04/13/2009 "Game Boy Oddities" (Technologizer)
04/05/2009 "Gadget Autopsy: The Nintendo Game Boy" (PC World)
03/17/2009 "The World's Weirdest Keyboards" (PC World)
03/11/2009 "iPhone Prototype Seller Speaks" (Technologizer)
02/08/2009 "Ten Greatest PC Games Ever" (PC World)
02/01/2009 "Der erste schwarze Spieleheld" (E-MEDIA, February 2009)
01/27/2009 "The Mac Timeline: Hits and Misses" (Macworld)
01/24/2009 "Five Forgotten Apple Products" (Macworld)
01/19/2009 "Atari's 1984 Touch Tablet: A Retro-Unboxing" (Technologizer)
12/09/2008 "The Computer Mouse Turns 40" (Macworld)
12/01/2008 "Macintosh 25th Anniversary Timeline" (Macworld, January 2009)
11/05/2008 "The Genesis of Success: 20 Years of Sega's Dark Horse Console" (Ars Technica)
11/04/2008 "Inside the Commodore 64" (PC World)
10/22/2008 "Microsoft Word Turns 25" (PC World)
08/15/2008 "Eight Ways the iMac Changed Computing" (Macworld)
08/15/2008 "10 Years of Cuddly, Friendly iMacs" (Wired News)
08/07/2008 "Inside Nintendo's Classic Game Console" (PC World)
07/24/2008 "Simon Turns 30" (1UP)
07/09/2008 "Inside the World's Greatest Keyboard" (PC World)
06/25/2008 "Ten Things Everyone Should Know about Space Invaders" (1UP)
06/16/2008 "Birth of a Standard: The Intel 8086 Microprocessor" (PC World)
06/16/2008 "Stephen Morse Interview: Father of the 8086 Processor" (PC World)
06/03/2008 "Inside a Classic: The TRS-80 Model 100" (PC World)
04/18/2008 "If It's Good Enough For Shatner..." (PC World)
03/27/2008 "Anatomy of an Icon: Inside the Apple IIc" (PC World)
12/24/2007 "A Very Vintage Tech Christmas" (PC World)
11/23/2007 "Oh Stella! Gaming's First Crush Turns 30" (1UP)
11/02/2007 "The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time" (PC World)
10/19/2007 "10 Years of Ultima Online: Ultima Online Through the Ages" (1UP)
08/14/2007 "The 'Videogame' Fallacy: Rebutting the IGJA" (GameSetWatch)
07/18/2007 "An Interview With Sid Meier" (Gamasutra)
07/18/2007 "The History of Civilization" (Gamasutra)
06/19/2007 "Platform Agnostics" (1UP)
05/15/2007 "Video Games Turn Forty" (1UP)
05/04/2007 "Woz Was Here - Steve Wozniak On His Gaming Past" (Gamasutra)
03/23/2007 "The Right to Baer Games (Interview with Ralph Baer)" (Gamasutra)
03/01/2007 "The Right to Baer Games (Interview with Ralph Baer)" (Game Developer, March 2007)
04/01/2006 "Possibly the World's Largest Video Game Collection" (Probe Magazine)
09/28/2006 Game Ads A-Go-Go: Fighting Game Teaser Ads (GameSetWatch)
08/31/2006 Game Ads A-Go-Go: Games You've Never Heard Of (GameSetWatch)
08/17/2006 Game Ads A-Go-Go: Out-Of-Context Game Ad Illustration Face Quiz #2 (GameSetWatch)
08/03/2006 Game Ads A-Go-Go: Bad Game Names to Blame (GameSetWatch)
07/20/2006 Game Ads A-Go-Go: A Serious, Frank Discussion on Overcomplicated Ads (GameSetWatch)
07/06/2006 Game Ads A-Go-Go: Deeply Disturbing Game-Related Ads (GameSetWatch)
06/22/2006 Game Ads A-Go-Go: It's a Jungle Out There (GameSetWatch)
06/08/2006 Game Ads A-Go-Go: Out-Of-Context Game Ad Illustration Face Quiz (GameSetWatch)
05/25/2006 Game Ads A-Go-Go: Visual Hyperbole (GameSetWatch)
05/11/2006 Game Ads A-Go-Go: Bad Game Ad Puns (GameSetWatch)
04/27/2006 Game Ads A-Go-Go: A Brief Guide to Gaming Diseases (GameSetWatch)
04/13/2006 Game Ads A-Go-Go: The Dirty Mind of a Gamer (GameSetWatch)
03/30/2006 Game Ads A-Go-Go: Proof that Video Game Companies Want You to Die (GameSetWatch)
03/23/2006 Game Ads A-Go-Go: Guys Freakin' Out (GameSetWatch)
03/16/2006 Game Ads A-Go-Go: Strange and Devious Peripherals (GameSetWatch)
03/09/2006 Game Ads A-Go-Go: Dumb Ads of the '90s (GameSetWatch)
11/02/2005 - Present Editor-In-Chief (600+ Posts) Vintage Computing and Gaming