With the under-16 social media ban coming into effect, I couldn’t help but wonder, would teens benefit from bringing back the landline? It was yet another park visit, trying to hold a conversation ...

While Civilization 7's 2025 launch is some way off, there's plenty of new 4X goodness right on our doorstep. Ara: History Untold, the historical strategy game from Oxide Games and Xbox Game Studios, ...

Microsoft first launched Encarta in 1993, but the idea for the digitized encyclopedia software was initially conceived in 1985. Before the Internet allowed you to instantaneously look up every random ...

In 1994, multimedia discs—from encyclopedias to magazines—flooded the market, and felt like the future. It was fun while it lasted. At the time, it was the CD-ROM that had captured the imagination of ...

Can you imagine (or remember) living in a world without Wikipedia? If you wanted to know the basic facts on a given topic, what would you do? You could get a physical encyclopedia, but after you did, ...

ChatGPT I asked ChatGPT to imagine my life as a 90's kid with access to AI, and the results were eye-opening Pro I journeyed into the web archive of an iconic consumer electronics magazine – here’s ...

Nick Mordowanec is a Newsweek investigative reporter based in Michigan. His focus includes U.S. and international politics and policies, immigration, crime and social issues. Other reporting has ...

With the Great Computer Store Rush of 1994 at a close, it is clear that the era of interactive multimedia computing is solidly upon us. And so it is time to talk about CD-ROM encyclopedias, the ...

I can't have been the only child that made a presentation for their parents in order to sell the value of a home PC in the mid-90s. If you are a fortunate child of the mid-90s you'll have experience ...

Before the invention of the internets, information was a hot commodity. If you needed to acquire information on an unknown or obscure topic there were several options at your disposal: the public ...