From Landlines to Tamagotchis, Love Letters to Obsolete Technology

The death of the landline was premature.

Turns out the obsolete floppy is way more in demand than you’d think.

A resurgence in dumb phones in the U.S. may be tied to concerns about the mental health impact of smartphones, especially among younger generations.

For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they’re vanishing into history.

From 2003 to 2012, music was disposable and nothing survived.

Young people are opting for point-and-shoots and blurry photos.

It’s been over a quarter of a century since the little device first hit store shelves, but its simple brilliance lives on in today’s most popular games.

Though they’ve long since been replaced by cell phones, beepers have more uses today than you might realize.

With Maximum PC and MacLife’s abandonment of print, the dead-tree era of computer journalism is officially over. It lasted almost half a century—and was quite a run.

The most unlikely of music formats is staging a return. Part novelty and part nostalgia, here’s how to dive in.

The slow extinction of physical media is bad news for movie fans. We’re told that “everything’s streaming now”, but it’s simply not true.

While Netflix leverages nostalgia for a format it helped destroy via the sitcom ‘Blockbuster’, cinephiles from Liverpool to Los Angeles – and notably former video shop employee Quentin Tarantino – are heralding a newfound appreciation for the VHS tape.

Despite its cutting-edge image, Japan has a soft spot for the decidedly 20th-century machines.