Teo Soares

A while back, I got into reading vintage news articles about tech. (Everyone needs a hobby.) History is cool/fun/weird. Now I'm doing the obvious thing and starting a newsletter: wearelivinginthefuture.com/p/hacking-synt…

@jasminewsun Thanks for the shout-out!

obsessed with this substack by @teossaurus that digs up old tech news for a "this week in." always eerily resonant — history is a circle! wearelivinginthefuture.com

Illustrations by Betty Debnam, creator of The Mini Page, a syndicated newspaper supplement for kids. These are from a 1982 issue titled “Hello Computer.”

In this week's newsletter: online dating in the 1960s: wearelivinginthefuture.com/p/computer-dat…

1984 headline: “Students learn bits and bytes can lead to ethical questions.”

@juliethrelkeld Thank you so much! It’s really nice to hear you like it.

@teossaurus This is such a pleasurable read, especially for those of us of a certain age. Thank you for putting this together.

A while back, I got into reading vintage news articles about tech. (Everyone needs a hobby.) History is cool/fun/weird. Now I'm doing the obvious thing and starting a newsletter:

@1ucina Thanks!

@teossaurus i got this as an ad but it’s actually really interesting! nice job

A while back, I got into reading vintage news articles about tech. (Everyone needs a hobby.) History is cool/fun/weird. Now I'm doing the obvious thing and starting a newsletter: wearelivinginthefuture.com/p/hacking-synt…

Also in this week's newsletter: 1980s video games whose protagonists were (gasp!) girls.

In this week's newsletter: space shrimp.

@hamb0ne1 @randytoad I love that story.

@teossaurus @randytoad Apparently the program settings hadn’t been tweaked yet — negative values were converted to positive ones. I decided not to run with the money (HS after all) but I thought about it.

@randytoad @hamb0ne1 It appears that he was a "chief teller" (I'm pretty sure this is the incident mentioned in the first article): nytimes.com/1973/03/23/arc…

@hamb0ne1 @teossaurus I was an adult in 1973 and 11k seems like a bit much for a teller. I remember thinking at that time that 10k/yr was a decent middle class salary.

Anyway check it out would love to hear what you think!

The idea is to collect interesting tech news from the previous week, but from history. So, like, July 18-24, but in 1961, 1962, etc. (Except I messed up this first one and pulled some articles from June, so.)

@keiyasui Tips? I’ve been laying siege to the gnats in my apartment for months with no success.

Haven’t seen a fungus gnat in days - they won many battles but I won the war

I made a thing!

I haven’t tweeted in a couple of years, but this one is worth it. Shout out to the people who actually made the thing: @hapticdata @alexanderchen @cleezybear @yotammann and @luisa_ph. Congrats!

Sundays. publicdomainreview.org/collections/dr…

Same

@hellanina *high