Modem Times

Celebrating the geek of days gone by.

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Welcome to Modem Times, a bulletin board of old geekery. Here we collate the dreams of yesteryear and save them to laserdisc. You never know, someday we may need all this old stuff again...

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More vintage #tech another time. Don't forget to keep your rollerball clean...

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Let's quickly head back to the heyday of Yugoslavian computer magazines: a happy place where kernel panic is unknown and Visual Basic is enough for most people...

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I think he's enjoying that laptop a little too much...

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To be fair they are the right size for posting...

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Wait, tumble dryers used to use flames!? #SundayThoughts

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That's a bit harsh on the mighty legacy of the sandwich toaster... #cookery

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...it's a mainframe!

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The 1969 Honeywell Kitchen #Computer. Only $70,000 brand new. And the best bit is...

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We forget how beer cans used to look. Don't confuse it with the silver polish! #beeroclock

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Fun fact: the concept was based on studying the neck of a giraffe, which needs to be both flexible and rigid at the same time! #FridayThoughts #space

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This is rather cool. It's an EVA spacesuit that uses mechanical pressure from coiled wires to maintain pressurisation.

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It's only a concept at the moment, but the biomechanical spacesuit may be a way to allow more flexibility for EVA use, as well as saving space.

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"OK Rodney, play it cool..."