By Sean P. Aune |
With E3 2011 now in the history books with its introductions of the PS Vita and Wii U, it seemed like a good time to look back at the very beginnings of the Sega Dreamcast. While I’ve brought up this system before, it’s one of…
By Sean P. Aune |
It only seems appropriate with WWDC 2011 (World Wide Developers Conference) starting this coming Monday, and bringing with it the possible launch of Mac OS X Lion, that we take a look back at the passing of Mac OS 9. Back at the WWDC in…
By Sean P. Aune |
It’s hard to believe it’s only been 10 years since Apple launched its Apple Store retail outlets as it feels like they have been around forever. With the anniversary happening this week, and the rumors of a revamp to the retail locations happening as early as this…
By Sean P. Aune |
With Modern Warfare 3 seeming like a lock for release this fall, I naturally got excited as I’ve loved the previous two installments in this series. However, any time a new first person shooter (FPS) is about to be released, I think back to one…
By Sean P. Aune |
This week’s post about Microsoft’s Home of the Future hit me right in an area I love: Predictions of futurists. I’ve featured a lot of them here on Flashback Friday, and that’s because they always make me chuckle when you think of how wrong they…
By Sean P. Aune |
With the closure of Google Video, people were scrubbing the site for videos that might be lost to eternity when this little gem from 1994 turned up. Some have called it fake because of how nearly pinpoint accurate it was, but our feeling is it’s…
By Sean P. Aune |
PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) were all the rage for some time in the business world, but then those darn smartphones came along and killed off those beloved devices with their … er … smartness. Earlier this week Adriana spoke about her PalmOne LifeDrive in the…
By Sean P. Aune |
With the announcement this week of Comcast releasing its Extreme 105 plan that brings 105Mbps down and 10Mbps up speeds for $105 a month, I thought back to the early days of mass Internet adoption. Those services such as America Online, CompuServe and Prodigy. I’ve…
By Sean P. Aune |
Earlier this week the Vintage Buffalo column talked about the wonders of the Series 1 TiVo, and that got me to thinking about the wonders of DVRs (Digital Video Recorders) in general. How in the world did people function without these miracles of modern television…
By Sean P. Aune |
With baseball season upon us we took a look through out opening day at the impact of technology in various aspects of the sport. Of particular interest was the story on the five best baseball video games of all time, but I had to ask…
By Sean P. Aune |
With the CTIA mobile conference wrapping up in Florida right now, it seems like a good time for Flashback Friday to take a look back at what phones of the “future” were supposed to be like. The United Kingdom Post Office Research Labs in the…
By Sean P. Aune |
If the rumors are true, the Microsoft Zune is dead. Microsoft is thus far neither confirming or denying the rumor, and the software itself will definitely live on, but the prevailing sense is that the hardware has gone the way of the Dodo Bird. Microsoft made some…
By Sean P. Aune |
There have been many different ways to entertain yourself in a car over the years, but quite possibly the biggest pain in the behind to ever “grace” a car had to be the 8-track cartridge system. Whenever I think back to the 1970′s, at least…
By Sean P. Aune |
With the iPad 2 introduction having happened this week, we thought it might be fun to step just a little over year into the past and look at the introduction of the original iPad. Normally I like to dig a bit deeper into the past…
By Sean P. Aune |
Apparently back in 1991, Nintendo felt the need to train every retailer in how to properly handle customer service when it came to the NES. Discovered this little gem while cruising around YouTube the other day, and while it isn’t really ”wow, they had messed…
By Sean P. Aune |
Who would ever thought there was a time when Steve Jobs was impressed with seeing himself on television? Welcome to another installment of Flashback Friday (check our cool new logo to the right!). This week the above video of a young Steve Jobs preparing for…
By Sean P. Aune |
It would seem that in 1994, the Internet stymied the hosts of the NBC Today show. Back in the early to mid-1990′s, the Internet was still this mysterious creature that not many people grasped. Anytime you said the word “Internet” to someone, they looked at…
By Sean P. Aune |
With all of this talk about Nintendo 3DS and Sony NGP, isn’t it time we took a look back at the roots of portable gaming? While the Game Boy wasn’t the first handheld game by a longshot, it was the first to receive wide acceptance…
By Sean P. Aune |
No matter how strong a story a video game has, why does it seem that no one can ever into a decent movie? Earlier this week we brought you the news that Mortal Kombat: Rebirth is being turned into a Web series, and while not…
By Sean P. Aune |
And Flashback Friday has returned from its holiday/CES hiatus. Now, I know you all want to applaud the return of the weekly column where I mock old technology, but this week I’ve really brought the pain: Brick phones. As the TechnoBuffalo team walked the floor…
By Sean P. Aune |
This one wasn’t catching my amusement like the last two, but then about half way through we got to Microsoft Bookshelf, and we’re off to the races! Yes, folks, there was a time before Wikipedia where people still looked things up in books, or they…
By Sean P. Aune |
After last week’s 1983 video of these guys suggesting gifts for “hackers”, I just had to find another one from them. We jump forward to 1987 this year with more suggestions from them of what to pick up for Christmas, and while some of their…
By Sean P. Aune |
First things first: It’s obvious these people had no real clue what the term “hacker” meant. This gift giving guide for computer lovers from 1983 may be one of my favorite Flashback Friday installments yet. Taking a look at what amazed them – wow, a…
By Sean P. Aune |
Talking about dot matrix printers last week made me realize just how noisy the early days of home computing were. While the printers were insanely loud, you didn’t use them quite as often as your modem. As you can hear in the video above, it…
