🚨🚨🚨 HAPPENING NOW - 2PM ET 🚨🚨🚨 📈🕹️👑 Raiford Guins discusses PONG’s long life, Atari’s rise, and how a simple game built markets, shaped categories, and still circulates today. 📺 Head to www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal to join the talk! 📺

50 years ago today it snowed in San Francisco. It hasn’t fallen in measurable levels since. Thanks @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social for the reminder — I would have missed this anniversary! Gift link ❄️🎁❄️ www.sfchronicle.com/oursf/articl...

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Beautiful and fun new paintings by artist friend Angela Windin feature animals floating through nebulae among other astronimical ideas. New show just up at City Art on Valencia in SF. www.angelawindin.com/gallery-1

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

I was just looking at Scala on Amiga and look how beautiful! (Source + kudos to Stone Tools: stonetools.ghost.io/scala-amiga)

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Is this the specific origin of the Cow Palace name? SF Supervisor Franck Havenner refers to the project as a "palace for cows" as early as May of 1933, giving attribution and pretty early date to the phrase. Clip from SF Examiner, 5/26/1933. @peterhartlaub.bsky.social @davidgallagher.bsky.social

Really delightful idea for a little video. What real planet might Metroid be set on? youtu.be/ult5yLbDPnI?...

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Final book jacket design for my upcoming history of Sphere computers. Looks fab. The book can as of now still be pre-ordered via the Kickstarter campaign's "late pledges." www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzo...

Most people call it EGA and VGA but real Californians know to say “the” EGA and the VGA

POPCORNT.BMF

Uploaded some SCELBI book covers to Fonts in Use with IDs of the excellent photolettering/dry-transfer styles on them fontsinuse.com/uses/74697/s...

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Fell St. construction site, SF.

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

Unfair to Alien Golfers

Great Lakes Computer Expo '82 Saginaw Civic Center

@rollovereasy.org it’s time for everyone to remember @jefposk.bsky.social’s SF sunset time technique! we’re gaining aa out minute a day, so In January, add the date to 5 pm In Feb, add the date to 5:30 in March, add the date to 6 (offer not valid in other cities. states or provinces)

If you have the space, means and collection: a northern Texas warehouse full of proto-Redbox VHS vending machines from the mid-1980s is being evicted. The machines are free and whatever isn't taken will imminently be scrapped. www.facebook.com/commerce/lis...

From a 1990 Electronic Boutique catalog scanned by VGHF - https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/d1088621-1609-4795-ae9c-0d3f4c5e446e - 'Fall's Most Wanted' included Super Mario Bros 3 & the Game Boy.

Heartbreaking exclusive landed by the brilliant @emmaruthless.bsky.social. Bottom of the Hill is closing later this year. The reason? It's complicated, sort of. Read it here:

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎 🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

At Christmas time, I always remember how wonderful, pure and exciting it was in 2001 when Xbox launched (also the blue screen of death jokes). The Ancient Greeks correctly understood nostalgia to be a disease, so instead of dwelling on the past, we work to bring even better things to life soon!

I don't mean to be divisive but to call it a computer's "natural scrolling"--which mimics the despicable Phone--and then to make it default? An outrage. Swiping down should scroll down, as was true since the dawn of time on the noble mouse scroll wheel

<tap tap tap> is this thing on

OMG quite unexpected, we won a Boston Music Award last night! We won the Dance/Electronic category (among some outstanding nominees), and it's nice to get the recognition in a year that we have been pretty actively putting out new music and playing some shows! Huge thanks to all who voted for us 💜💜🎹

I wonder if the LINC computer from 1962 is the first pixel font on a display, ever. The font was 4x6, and the small screen seems to hold only 25x12 characters. I’m curious if it was designed by Mary Allen Wilkes?

NEW SHRIT dashare.zone I WILL NEVER PASTE WITH FORMATING ,DO NOT FORMAT MY PASTE!!!!!!! - dashare.zone ADMIN

Joseph Weisbecker's Polaroid snapshots of the unreleased RCA Studio III's color graphics, with the CDP1862 color generator IC (1977) Featuring Pinball, a planned RCA Studio III game (2nd pic) From the Hagley Digital Archives

“George Lucas space movies” (Moritz 1984)

It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍

But not quite

I gave a talk at VCF West this past summer: a little about Sphere, a lot about the early history of floppy disks. Enjoy! youtu.be/NoXtIR_Edgk?...

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

One of the best san francisco history episodes and doesn’t get much play these days. The farallon egg wars!!

Love this www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

Bay Area tech history nerd friends: Paul Terrell, the founder of the Byte Shop–Apple’s first dealer—is holding a 50th anniversary party next month. It’s open to all and I’ll be there! byteshop50thyearbirthdayp.rsvpify.com

Thanks to all the lovely people out there who have supported the Sphere book project, the campaign has cleared its goal. I am immensely appreciative. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzo...

three-text is free open source software ready for immersive typographic experiences on the web github.com/countertype/... #threetext #threejs

Sustainable band lineups include four cool people (Ramones), four dorks (Weezer), or two cool people and two dorks (Cheap Trick). Unsustainable band lineups include one cool person and three dorks (Pixies)

Found a 1967 first edition of Kemeny & Kurtz's "BASIC Programming" book. The language was already spreading far enough beyond Dartmouth to warrant a book published by Wiley & Sons. It was only a three or four years old then.

I salute In-N-Out Burger for launching a whole ass Book-It program

LOVE my new @bart.gov holiday sweater. Appreciate that instead of thinking “how do we make it weirder/uglier?” they pivoted to “let’s make a holiday sweater people can wear to a first date or job interview!” ❄️🚇💯❄️

I’m once again asking the #retrocomputing community to please back this Kickstarter! Really want to read this story! Please and thank you!

Last few days for funding “Go Computer Now!”, a book about the nearly forgotten, pioneering Utah computer firm Sphere (1975–1977) that you likely *never heard about*. (I edited the book.) Help us get over the last hump at www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzo... @bzotto.bsky.social

The back of a Sphere computer was a mess. Why? There was no "backplane"-- no slots. The whole system was loomed together with 14-connector ribbon cables, and the cards sat in loose slots. Moving the system could easily wiggle out a pin or two somewhere, and maybe the computer wouldn't start up.

Awesome new 3D type rendering tools by @tribby.com countertype.com/tools/three-...