As sort-of promised, I’ve started putting some of my old old content up from the 90s and 2000s in the Retro section with some context added in a With Hindsight part preceding them. Just a bit of whimsical retro lip-service and reminding myself just how much more time I used to have, and just how many things have gone by the wayside in nigh on two decades. Also updated my Currently Using page for a few minor changes over the last few months....
{::comment} Posted by: graham · 25 May 2000 · 23:25:00 {:/comment} In Hindsight ‘Densha De Go!’ in December 2020. I don’t remember much about writing this one, though the title is a play on the name of an arcade game which came out around the same time, and made it onto consoles. You played a train driver and had to get simulations of real trains to real stations on a real timetable....
{::comment} Posted by: graham - 01 May 2000 - 22:28:00 then on 01 December 2020 {:/comment} With Hindsight ‘PC Upgrade - May 2000’ in December 2020 We can always have a good laugh at PC specs and prices from decades past, but this was fairly balanced I suspect for the time. Ah, VersionTracker, I used to check that thing every day in the 90’s until RSS and in-application updaters were a thing....
{::comment} Written by: graham · 1998-02-12 20:57, Last modified by: graham · 06 May 2007 · 22:49:24 {:/comment} In Hindsight ‘Digital Life Update - February 1998’ in December 2020 Over 20 years on, and the idea of explaining a move to Mac might seem odd. In context, at the time, Apple was a basket case, Jobs barely back, the iMac wouldn’t be out for another six months and the company was almost bankrupt, so the idea of move to the Mac platform was a bit weird....
{::comment} First Published: October 14th 1997 Last Updated: July 22nd 1999 {:/comment} In Hindsight - December 2020 I was a huge fan of free online texts, and I wrote this page against that backdrop in late 1997 when I was still teaching English on JET, Amazon was just getting somewhere and when buying an English language book meant a small selection in a larger city like Yokohama and paying a lot of money....