Category: Entertainment

Bits And Bytes – Program 12: What Next?

This is it – the final episode of the 1983 TV Ontario series “Bits and Bytes.” It’s been 11 episodes introducing the basic concepts of computer usage in 1983. This is an interesting one – it focuses on the future of computing, both logistically and practically. Things like people sitting for far too long at […]

Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 34: Fester’s Quest – Episode Review

As promised in the Nintendo Power episode, the next video James did for the Angry Video Game Nerd covered the NES game Fester’s Quest, a rather unique video game adaptation of the classic Addams Family franchise. The entire episode is really a tribute to the Addams Family, with James playing all the members of the […]

The Leonard Nimoy “Magnavision” LaserDisc Promotional Video

Those of you who are fans of vintage technology will certainly have at least heard of LaserDisc, a video format very similar yet oh so different to CD, DVD, Blu-Ray, and the like – formats we well know today. In fact, LaserDisc was the predecessor to optical disc formats. Yep, they all got their start […]

The Apollo 11 “Full Mission” Trailer

July 2019 will mark 50 years since the Apollo 11 mission, certainly one of the greatest achievements of humanity. While many fans of space history may be planning their own little anniversary events and the like, YouTube user lunarmodule5 has something a little better in store: a video series covering the entire mission, from pre-launch […]

Disc Manufacturing, Inc. Compact Disc Production Plant Tour – Circa 1995

Here’s a pretty awesome video I found a little while back and just now am getting to covering – a tour of the Disc Manufacturing Inc. compact disc production plant, showing the process by which CD’s were actually made in their facilities per customer requests. The video is of course a promotional one designed to […]

There Are Now Game Console Setup Services. Wait, What?

This isn’t something that actually surprises me, given the nature of capitalism and the ability for marketing to make people pay for damn near anything, but seeing that it’s actually a thing now amazes me. There are now services you can pay for that will set up video game consoles. Yes, seriously. And yes, they […]

I’m Quite Certain YouTube Is Re-Subbing Me To Channels I’ve Unsubscribed To!

So, we all know how YouTube has been, apparently, stealthily unsubscribing people from various channels over the past few years. This is a pretty well documented trend that is quite the annoyance for most users of the site, especially when compounded with how the site now no longer seems to wish to show people some, or […]

The Computer Chronicles – Fifth Generation Computers (1984)

This is a rather interesting, albeit outright strange episode of the Computer Chronicles. It discuses a concept known as the “Fifth Generation Computer” which when you first hear it sounds like a discussion on computers produced around the time of this episode, 1984. That’s not actually the case: The term “Fifth Generation Computer” in this […]