retro
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5 Wild Tips From 1967’s ‘How to Dress for Success’
First and foremost, who is Edith Head? Well, she was a very big deal in Hollywood, having won a whopping eight Oscars for costume design. She also penned the self-help book How to Dress for Success, which now provides a snapshot of the wild standards expected of women in 1967. Don’t worry about a career,…
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Five ‘Retro Gadgets’ To Buy If You’re Feeling Nostalgic
Technology continues to offer us simpler, faster and better ways of doing the things we enjoy and that technological progression is only likely to get better each year. The downfall to all this is that as the science behind these leaps gets more complicated, we tend to lose touch with the process of creating or…
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Play These Retro Video Games With Your Kid
You know who are the worst people on earth? Dingbats who condescendingly scoff at creative works because they’re not “modern.” Those who go to revival screenings to guffaw at pre-digital special effects, or who say things like, “This game sucks! The graphics are so blocky and it doesn’t auto-save every five seconds!”
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How To Install MS-DOS 6.22 And Windows 3.11 In A Virtual Machine
Sitting in front of our modern PCs, it’s hard to imagine a time when things weren’t as smooth, easy and inutile as they are today. In my recent review of Parallels Desktop 14, I mentioned that I set up a virtual machine to run MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11. Here’s how I did it.
