There was a time when recording music from the radio onto cassette tapes was one of the few ways to build a personal music collection. There was no YouTube, no streaming service and no phone where you could type the name of a song and hear it immediately. If you wanted to save a song,
Compact discs are finding a new audience, and this time the CD comeback is visible in the numbers. For years, the idea of a CD revival sounded like pure nostalgia. Streaming had become the easiest way to hear almost any song, while shelves full of jewel cases seemed to belong to another time. Still, many
The games we played before smartphones, tablets and endless online entertainment often began with one simple question that could bring an entire afternoon to life: “Are you coming outside?” There was no group chat and nobody shared their location. Someone called from the pavement, knocked on a door or rang the bell. Within minutes, a
Gifts for vinyl lovers can offer much more than another decorative object. Choosing an album, carefully removing it from its sleeve and lowering the stylus onto the record turns listening into a small ritual rather than something that simply happens in the background. Well-chosen gifts for vinyl lovers can help organise a growing collection, make
Twenty-five years have now passed since the world’s first webcam, the Trojan Room Coffee Pot camera, was switched off at the University of Cambridge. It did not watch a busy street, a famous building or an important scientific experiment. It watched a coffee machine. The picture was small, grainy and black and white. It had
Nadežda and Budimir left behind several photographs, their names in old documents, a death notice and one preserved transcript of a letter. Yet that letter does something no official record can—it gives Nadežda her voice back. In the first part of this family story, my mother Slavica spoke about the life of her mother, Slobodanka,
Gifts for analog photography lovers work best when they connect with the slower, more deliberate side of taking pictures. A film camera has a physical presence that a phone cannot fully reproduce: the weight of the body, the mechanical controls, the sound of the shutter and a roll with a limited number of exposures. Every
Retro Games Ltd has confirmed that THEA1200 is officially an Amiga product. One short sentence can carry surprising weight in the world of retro computing, especially when it involves the complicated history of the Amiga name. At first glance, this may sound like a simple branding update. For Amiga fans, however, the word official matters.
Some family stories remain unfinished. The story of Budimir Bosiljčić is one of them. His name, photographs and several documents have survived, but the most important question remains unanswered: what ultimately happened to him? Budimir Bosiljčić was my great-grandfather, a military technical official and fighter pilot. Our family has never reliably established his fate after
Retro phone cases bring back the look of devices that once had their own unmistakable shapes, buttons and sounds. A cassette tape clicked into place, a calculator had satisfyingly firm keys, and an old mobile phone glowed with a small green screen. Today, one smartphone replaces nearly all of those devices. It plays music, takes
