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Tech Brief 19 November 2025 featured image shows an 8-bit pixel art landscape with a network of servers and cables, central cables visibly snapping, with text displaying the date in pixelated style.

Tech Brief 19 November 2025: Outages, AI Agents, Digital Heritage

19 November 2025 Sophie Calder 0

Tech Brief 19 November 2025 investigates how increased dependency on centralized technology leads to dramatic impacts when failures occur, recalling early internet days.

Ringtone era visualization with a diverse group of people holding classic mobile phones from the early 2000s, prominently featuring a Nokia phone, surrounded by subtle hints of early 2000s culture like CD players and mix tapes.

The Ringtone Realness: When Our Phones Had Voices

27 October 2025 Rachel Whitmore 0

Relive the golden era of ringtone culture, where our mobile phones declared our identities aloud. Rediscover the social impact and the technical innovations that transformed personal expression through the sounds of our phones.

Micro Mart magazine on an old desk, next to a classic beige PC.

Micro Mart Magazine: The Golden Days and What We’ve Lost

16 July 2025 Nathan Clarke 0

Delve into the nostalgic world of Micro Mart Magazine, a beacon of British computing culture celebrated for its classified ads that shaped a tech community intent on preserving its heritage and communal ethos.

Welcome to Netscrape News

27 June 2025 Sophie Calder 0

Netscrape News delivers a daily dose of tech nostalgia, cultural fluency, and historical hooks for the Gen-X soul. Join Sophie Calder for a blend of today’s headlines with a backward glance at tech’s rebellious past.