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Welcome to Modem Times, a bulletin board of old geekery. Here we collate the dreams of yesteryear and save them to laserdisc. You never know, someday we may need all this old stuff again...
Let's quickly head back to the heyday of Yugoslavian computer magazines: a happy place where kernel panic is unknown and Visual Basic is enough for most people...
More vintage #tech another time. Don't forget to keep your rollerball clean...
That's a bit harsh on the mighty legacy of the sandwich toaster... #cookery
The 1969 Honeywell Kitchen #Computer. Only $70,000 brand new. And the best bit is...
We forget how beer cans used to look. Don't confuse it with the silver polish! #beeroclock
This is rather cool. It's an EVA spacesuit that uses mechanical pressure from coiled wires to maintain pressurisation.
It's only a concept at the moment, but the biomechanical spacesuit may be a way to allow more flexibility for EVA use, as well as saving space.
Fun fact: the concept was based on studying the neck of a giraffe, which needs to be both flexible and rigid at the same time! #FridayThoughts #space














