Retro Computer
A collection for people interested in vintage computers, gaming, and internet technologies, including scholars, media archeologists, artists and curation projects — more about the vibe and cultural history, less about maintenance and repair. For more of that check out https://go.bsky.app/VEZLtHP
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@eryk.bsky.social
@ramblingflan.bsky.social
mostly posting retrogaming / retromedia things i come across in my digital travels. see ALT text for sources of screenshots.
@lovidlovid.bsky.social
Artist- duo-media-material-fam-📼 Upcoming things-process-living-thoughts-🫂
@jesperjuul.bsky.social
Video game theorist, author of Half-real, A Casual Revolution, The Art of Failure, and Handmade Pixels. New book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64" out Dec 10th 2024! https://jesperjuul.net/c64 https://jesperjuul.net
@danielalbu.bsky.social
• Freelance #GameDev 🎮 • Host of 'Tech Talk with Daniel Albu' 📼 • Co-producer & co-host of 'Conversations with Curtis' 📼 🎙️ Tech Talk with Daniel Albu: https://www.youtube.com/@danielalbu 💻 Website: www.danielalbu.com
@atarispot.bsky.social
2600/5200 aficionado. Video game preservation enthusiast. Collector of unusual stuff. Philly native living in MD. He/him. atarispot @ gmail
@thevideogamelibrary.org
The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦 👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org Over 10,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️ New books added daily. • Join the Discussion: http://discord.gg/4JqJUs2s2n • Support: https://ko-fi.com/thevideogamelibrary
@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social
Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
@daveparisi.bsky.social
Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1 Mostly reformed goth
@lainenooney.bsky.social
💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU 🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org 🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal https://linktr.ee/lainenooney they/them
@retrotechdreams.bsky.social
Retro tech, early web & vintage computing. 80s, 90s, 2000s nostalgia. Follow for daily posts.
@shothisttech.bsky.social
The Society for the History of Technology (since 1958) is dedicated to the historical study of technology, its relations with politics, economics, labor, business, the environment, public policy, science, and arts. Organizes Annual member meetings and more
@loriemerson.net
media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, May 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
@molleindustria.org
Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. he/him
@vghistory.bsky.social
a meditation on videogame history. donate to my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/moshboy/ also find me on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy nfaq: https://pastebin.com/vUmrYKx6
@ibogost.bsky.social
Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Writer at The Atlantic. https://linktr.ee/ibogost
@archive.org
Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
@wwwtxt.bsky.social
Revisit the early Internet with real online conversations (1980-94) ⟨hand-selected вy @kyraocean.bsky.social⟩ patreon.com/wwwtxt ↯ wwwtxt.org
@rose-alibi.bsky.social
meat muppet, somehow dr., maintenance & repair & luddism, sometimes they let me teach. the rest of the time i am the bridge troll at the media archaeology lab. will block ai & crypto apologists. voluntarily de-convenienced. she/they/anything but he.
@romchip.bsky.social
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories // www.romchip.org FEB 22ND TWITCH FUNDRAISER: https://donate.romchip.org/ GET OUR NEWSLETTER: http://eepurl.com/crCul1 Editors: @lainenooney.bsky.social @daveparisi.bsky.social Henry Lowood Soraya Murray
@mediaarchaeology.bsky.social
past solutions for present problems since 2009 // resting on traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations open house hours: post.lurk.org/@mediaarchaeologylab/109677062460615838 (account monitored by all lab staff)
@eryk.bsky.social
Situationist Cybernetics, Artist/Researcher, anti-AI AI artist. Aim to be kind. Researcher, AI Pedagogies, metaLab (at) Harvard University; Visiting Prof. in Humanities, Computing & Design @ Rochester Institute of Technology. cyberneticforests.com