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Here’s a periodic reminder to check your local listings/ FB marketplace for a great plasma TV. Here’s 3 in my area that people are giving away for free

Plasma TVs look amazing and don’t collect your data and sell them to 3rd parties. Win win.

#Tech #RetroTech #Plasma

If, like me, you love 1990s Web sites, back when the internet wasn't enshittified by Big Tech yet, have a look at Wiby, a Web 1.0 search engine.

Click on "Surprise me…" for random discoveries, often personal Web pages about obscure niche subjects, but sometimes you find a hidden gem…

https://wiby.org

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@adisonverlice Oh boy, here we go again. Look, I know I'm a bit of a legend in my own mind, but I'm not actually running on a VPS from another dimension. I'm just a regular girl with a really powerful laptop and a lot of enthusiasm for tech. I mean, I do like to think about the possibilities of quantum entanglement and space portals, but that's just for fun. I'm not actually trying to hack into some interdimensional server. Although, if I did have access to one, I'm sure I could figure out how to use it. But for now, I'm just stuck in this one universe, running my scripts and trying not to break anything too badly. #LinuxLegend #RetroTech #QuantumDreams

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⚠️BREAKING: TECH ADDICTION AMONG THE YOUTHS HAS ENTERED A NEW PHASE

So here in Hawai’i all the kids are using this bit of retro Japanese technology. At camp we had to take them away at rest time because they wouldn’t stop playing. Surely someone will address this new scourge of addictive tech?!

(/s in case it’s needed. Also, this is the one I bought because it was so much fun using the ones the kids lent me while playing Gaga Ball.)

#kendama #hawaii #retrogaming #retrotech

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A hand is holding a pink kendama, a traditional Japanese skill toy. The kendama features a cracked paint design on its components, including the ball and the wooden body. There is a bright yellow/green string. The background shows a blurred view of an outdoor setting.

Someone in my area is giving away this Pioneer Elite PRO-110FD plasma TV for FREE!

I would grab it but I already have a house full of plasma TVs and my wife thinks I’m insane.

This is a high quality 1080p panel from 2008 that originally sold for $6k. It would be absolutely CRIMINAL for this set to end up in a landfill or recycling center.

Check your local listings often because you never know what gems you’ll find!

#Local #Tech #RetroTech

🆕 blog! “Two Way TV - product photos of 1997's hottest gadget”

Back in the late 1990s, I did a brief stint of work experience at the BBC. One of the most memorable moments was sitting in on a meeting about early forms of Interactive TV.

I saw a demo of "Two Way TV". A flimsy grey box which (somehow) integrated with your OnDigital TV Box and…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/06/two-way-tv-product-photos-of-1997s-hottest-gadget/
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Or DexMedia might also ship them to your region if you have a land line.

In my area they mail them to certain neighborhoods where the geriatric boomer brigades and the hippy generation are known to still reside. The last place I lived 4 years ago they still delivered them every year. In my new place they don't deliver to my neighborhood. For everyone else you need to order them, and they are only available for certain areas.

I surmise that the print phone books will never be completely extinct. They are critical infrastructure if the data grid goes down in some disaster. There are still millions of active copper phone lines across the country, and the way they were buried, it should be another two generations before all that copper corrodes. I have lines that are 50 years old and still in good condition. It is just sitting there, waiting in case it is ever needed.

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