About this site.

This site was created, not to wallow in nostalgia, nor to poke fun at the past, rather as a celebration of what we have today. You may be reading this page in between recording a Podcast and updating your blog. Or maybe you've been ripping CDs or sharing files over a P2P network. Whatever you've been up to with your computer, chances are you would have had absolutely no inkling, 15 years ago, that anything like that would be possible.

Things move ridiculously fast in the world of technology and things creep up on you and, before you know it, you're taking the world wide web for granted. It is with this in mind that I am attempting to collect and display articles and advertisements from the recent past that illustrate, in some way, how fast our world is changing.

It's easy to laugh at the naivety of some of the adverts but that would be unfair. Everything was so new and shiny back then (whenever that was,) and it was not clear where we were headed. It's interesting to see the evolution and increase in sophistication over the years. I'm not saying that you shouldn't have a chuckle every now and again; I'm sure the Sega Game Gear advertisement, for example, was just as funny to its intended readers back in 1992.

Comments and Submissions

This is still very much the beginning of the project and all comments and submissions are gratefully received. Please be sure to email me with your intentions before sending any attachments othewise, your mail will be deleted without being opened. The sort of things I'm looking for are print advertisements, articles and reviews of anything related to computing, gaming, mobile phones, portable music players and so on. As I said, I've only just started this collection so be sure to come back for my updates.

Dave.