Benj Edwards
@benjedwards
Tech reporter, tech historian. Bylines Fast Company / The Atlantic / Retronauts podcast. Founder
What’s wrong with American healthcare pt.3624: Bloodwork testing giant LabCorp “misses” me and wants me to get more blood tests 🤦♂️
Find someone who looks at you the way the 1940s jolly green giant looks at corn
There's something slightly anachronistic-feeling about seeing the latest tech news on CompuServe.com 😁
Slam! for Windows 3.1 is a very simple-looking air hockey game, but the satisfying realistic sound effects make it worth playing. Fun little game, great with the mouse
Halloween decor for sale in July is kinda scary 😜 I have this feeling that in 20 years all major holidays will be celebrated simultaneously
A screenshot of my Windows quick launch toolbar apps circa 2002 -- I kinda miss these little guys 😁
If aliens want to capture me and let me live out my remaining years locked in vivarium that looks like this, I think I'd be OK 😜
Happy July 4th! To my knowledge, the Atari Jaguar (1993) was the last major video game console assembled in the USA Atari contracted with IBM to handle production of the console and accessories in Charlotte, NC. Some later controllers were made in China
Does anybody know what this connector type is called (maybe some Molex but what type)
I love finding weird random images in my file archives -- here's a Packard Bell computer startup image circa 1997
“It’s real and I can touch it, so at least we know where we stand” 😊
This is me and my hair on Christmas 1997, age 16. Looks like my parents gave me Colony Wars, PS1 GameShark, Duke Nukem 64, and an extra N64 controller. (And an obligatory 1990s UFO book, of course.) Not bad! 😁
Oak Ridge National Laboratory group photo (my guess circa 1953). My grandfather is the man in black, of course 😂
My grandfather was a nuclear health physicist at Oak Ridge National Labs in the 1950s. Ironically he died of radiation-related cancer in 1955 I recently found this document from ORNL dated Jan 1954 that has a crayon doodle by my dad on it, less than a year before my grandfather died. My dad was 7
If your name is Bart Jennings, contact me and you’re free to have this cartridge
There is an unwritten social contract behind every cautionary floppy disk label. They must be respected in perpetuity So don’t worry, Allison. I will not use your disk
1986: “Portable computers allow you to work from anywhere 🥳” 2026: “Portable computers allow you to work from anywhere 😒”
I wanna start an arcade where the machines only accept 1970s Eisenhower dollar coins
Has anyone seen this Atari ST monitor stand before and know what it was called? It has an interesting design where the shelf nestles into the little grove on the top of the ST. kinda cool!
I would non-ironically wear this Golden Nature Guide Non-Flowering Plants book cover on a T-shirt
Your mid-life crisis might be a sports car. Mine is a coin-operated 1981 Bally Wizard of Wor arcade machine 😊 Might as well enjoy the time I have left on this strange planet, 25 cents at a time