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How To Build The Best PC 1991 Had To Offer
In 1991, the reliably delightful Computer Chronicles gave us a peek into the intrepid world of custom PC builders — or as they were called back then, “homebrewers”. And looking back a solid 23 years later, the once so-called “Volkswagen of PCs” is downright adorable.
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Here’s How A 1984 Macintosh Tutorial Taught People To Use A Mouse
A generation of us grew up interacting with computers through a mouse — but that has not always case and will not always be the case. (Hi there toddlers on iPads!) When the Macintosh 128K debuted in 1984, it had to teach users how to point, click and drag with a charming, game-filled mouse tutorial.
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‘Blowing Smoke Up Your Ass’ Used To Be Literal
When someone is “blowing smoke up your ass” today, it is a figure of speech that means that one person is complimenting another, insincerely most of the time, in order to inflate the ego of the individual being flattered.
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Eight Bizarre And Painful Highlights From Two Centuries Of Beauty Tech
Humans have been pursuing this elusive quality known as “beauty” long before the miracles of modern medicine. Inventors were always coming up with tools meant to help women — and men — achieve the wide-held physical ideals of their era. Eager test subjects would get hooked up to devices that looked like torture machines, or…