About
This blog is an attempt to chronicle all the really great ideas of the future that, in retrospect, are really awful; the weird, freaky cool things that didn’t make it into the next decade; and even things that we’re really happy are gone.
We’re here to talk about dialing your home to turn your oven on, or reading news over your TV set.
We’re here to gripe about how game pads replaced joysticks, and how raster monitors replaced vector monitors.
We’re here to celebrate the MMU, the DVR, and the DSL, and remember how bad the world was before them.
We’re here to make fun of 8-track, video discs, DivX, and every pair of 3D glasses that ever gave us a headache.
Forward, into the past!
Tim Showalter bought the domain. Dan Martinez said he thought it was a good idea.