By Jon Rettinger |
It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, but I’ve always been a geek. I don’t mean how the term get’s casually thrown about now, as someone who likes cellphones, but a certifiable geek, bordering on nerd. I used to take calculators apart to see…
By Roy Choi |
The best tech gift I ever received has to be my very first cell phone from my parents in the summer of 1999 right before my senior year of high school. The Qualcomm QCP 860, on what was then AirTouch Wireless (which eventually became Verizon…
By Joey Davidson |
You figure that the gaming writer for TechnoBuffalo would pick a gaming console of some sort for his favorite tech gift, right? Wrong! I’m going with a graphing calculator. Bring it on. The year was 1999, and I was a brand new freshman in high…
By Sean P. Aune |
The late 1970s and early 1980s were a magical time to be a kid. The Atari 2600 was hitting stores, Star Wars action figures were every where and electronics were finding their way in to every imaginable item. In 1979, Milton Bradley was really leading…
By Brandon Russell |
In 1996, I was in fifth grade—a sprouting youngster still jumping fences and chasing down the Ice Cream Man. It was the end of summer. I don’t remember the exact date, but I know that it was night, 8, maybe 9. I was ready—I had…
By Adriana Lee |
I grew up in a household of modest means. Though my father often brought home smaller gadgets and tech tools, a costly purchase like a computer or game console was beyond our budget. And so I used to sit and listen to elementary school friends…
By Todd Haselton |
I started my career in New York City working for Laptop Magazine, and I loved my days at the publication because I had a ton of time to study the newest laptops and work with some of the best people in the industry who write…
