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Does the Windows 11 taskbar calendar often crash for you? We'd love to hear your experiences.
Pour one out for your friends cursed with keyboards that *don't* have CTRL at the bottom left corner of the layout.
Do you ever wonder if there's someone out there still using Windows 8?
As computers grew more powerful and gained colorful displays, somehow they felt less arcane...
One of Iomega's last gasps - the handsome 750MB Zip drive. Notably, it could read - but not write - the original 100MB Zip disk format.
Worth remembering—Iomega had some sleek peripherals on the market well before Apple ended the Reign of Beige in the late 1990s.
In the early days of Hackaday, Nokia 3310 screens were a popular part to include in projects. The world has since moved on...
Argument: Commodore is the company, the computer is just called "64"
Nintendo wisely realised that certain action buttons are used more than others.
How does one go about getting a SCSI interface on a modern machine?
Despite our best efforts, Chrome's spell check still doesn't understand that maneuverability is a valid word.
Does a donut machine count as a 3D printer if it can only print donuts?
The Dreamcast controller would have made life very difficult for any developer porting over multi-platform titles. It was the only console of its generation that didn't come with dual sticks. These became critical for camera control in a wide variety of 3D games.
Fun fact: Hackaday does not have a Sega Hacks category. We may never have a Sega hacks category...
One wonders how many neighborhood secrets were leaked by unsophisticated eavesdroppers in the 1980s.
Prior to its buyout and shutdown, Netscape established the Mozilla Foundation to handle the development and maintenance of future browsers.
In 1999, Netscape Communications Corporation had 2,500 employees. By 2008, the company was defunct.
Fun fact: Microsoft only put the Xbox 360 into series production 69 days before the September 14, 2005 launch date. This, combined with the high initial failure rate due to the red ring of death (RROD), was a major cause of initial supply shortages in the console's first year on sale.
Did anyone touch type or do word processing on the Amiga 500? It didn't exactly have the best key feel...
If you're in the US, have you considered making tea in your laundry or garage?
When it comes to the Pocket386, you're paying a lot for very little muscle. A few dollars per MHz, at least. The key market is perhaps for those maintaining old industrial systems and other stuff that still runs on DOS. In that context, it's a bargain—a modern reliable 386 that you can buy today.
A small change to a product can totally alter your manufacturing process. Let's say you're putting a MEMS microphone on a PCB. Easy to assemble, but it affects the process—because you can no longer simply wash the boards without risking damage to the component. Everything has an impact!
Thankfully, airliners are not actually out there bombing civilian areas with frozen human waste on the regular. hackaday.com/2025/11/21/h...
Ironically, the design of the C64 made it really rather unsuitable to holding a beer. A bit like the US-market SNES.