Tag Archives: Retro Tech

Ten years ago

Ten years ago… … I was living with friends in Manassas because the paperwork had yet to finalize on our house in Chesapeake. My friend Dan and I considered slipping outside to throw the power breaker at a few seconds past midnight (remember Y2K?), but elected not to because his grandparents might have heart attacks. [...]

teletype text messages

Via Brass Goggles: Some intrepid steampunk types have taken an old Navy teletype machine, cleaned it up, and wired it to a computer. The end result is a machine that receives modern text messages and prints them out in full 1910s glory. The Aetheric Message Machine