There was a time when “breaking news” arrived via Ceefax, a Usenet thread, or some lucky soul uploading a blurry .jpg to an Angelfire page. It was slow, glitchy, and brilliant. You weren’t fed news, you went looking for it. And when you found it, it felt like treasure.
That’s where Netscrape News comes in.
This daily dispatch isn’t just another tech roundup-it’s a carefully tuned scan of the digital airwaves for stories that matter to the Gen-X soul: privacy dramas, surveillance sagas, AI weirdness, forgotten formats resurrected, and policy shake-ups that make you reach for your PalmPilot out of sheer muscle memory. Each edition curates a handful of stories, delivered with dry wit, historical hooks, and the sort of cultural fluency that remembers the difference between GeoCities and AngelFire.
I didn’t grow up with floppy disks and dot matrix printers in my schoolbag-but I grew into them, thanks to a slightly obsessive tech upbringing (cheers, Dad). That reverence fuels this column. I want to give readers more than just “what happened today.” I want to highlight why it matters-and how it echoes those glorious, glitchy decades when tech felt like rebellion, curiosity, and future-shock all rolled into one.
So what can you expect? Think of Netscrape News as your digital digestif-short, sharp, nostalgic and enlightening. A blend of today’s most relevant stories with a backward glance and a forward lean. I’ll throw in “Today in Tech History,” a wrap-up to frame the bigger picture, and yes, I’ll sign off like someone who still bookmarks web comics and backs up her thoughts to imaginary ZIP drives.
Why tune in daily? Because in a world where the feed never stops, it helps to have a guide with an eye for substance, a love of CRT glow, and a foot planted firmly in both the past and the pixelated now.
See you in the next packet drop.
– Sophie Calder
From 8-bit to Gigabit.
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