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The Rise and Fall of the PalmPilot
Before our phones turned us into perpetual notification victims, the PalmPilot proved you could actually get stuff done with a grey, stylus-wielded slab that barely needed charging.
Published 2 Jul 2026
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Watching the Blocks Move in Disk Defragmenter
The therapeutic, anxiety-inducing story of the software tool that physically rearranged our hard drives, block by colorful box, while we sat in absolute stillness hoping it wouldn't crash.
Published 2 Jul 2026
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Facing the Dreaded Blue Screen of Death
The surprising story of the crash screen that terrified a generation—from the Microsoft executive who drafted it to the hidden business-grade engine that finally killed it.
Published 20 Jun 2026
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Wrestling with Clippy in Early Microsoft Office
If you typed "Dear..." in Microsoft Word in 1997, you knew exactly what was coming next: a tapping sound, two unblinking googly eyes, and a paperclip asking if you knew how to write a letter.
Published 3 Jun 2026
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Saving Your Life’s Work on a Floppy Disk
A nostalgic look back at the days when a single stray magnet, a rogue cat hair, or a crumb from your toast could instantly destroy your entire university degree.
Last updated 11 Jul 2026
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Survival in the Turbo C++ Era
A breakdown of the rigid, semicolon-obsessed world of Turbo C++ and the manual labor it took to build software before AI turned coding into a conversation.
Published 21 Apr 2026
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Writing Your First Site in Notepad
A look at the satisfyingly simple (and occasionally maddening) process of building the early web one HTML tag at a time in Windows Notepad.
Published 21 Apr 2026
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