Nostalgia Nerd

The Mandela Effect is a term used to describe shared false memories, where large groups of people seem to remember something different to what history shows us. This can be an incident, a story, a logo, a name, a series of events; pretty much anything. The weird thing is, many people seem to have the same false memories. Why is this?

The Windows 95 Launch was nuts. Never before and never since would an Operating System create the kind of excitement and hype that Windows 95 did. This video explores exactly why and how.

The Trojan Room Coffee pot story is interesting, firstly, because it's a story about the first ever webcam. Secondly, because it's about a coffee pot that has been with us since the dawn of the internet, and to this day, remains with us. I thought it was such an interesting topic that I popped over to Germany to see it in the flesh, and then decided to interview the man responsible for bringing it to us in the first place. I hope you enjoy it as much as my round trip to make it :D

SmelloVision is a thing that never really made it, but arguably, it should have. In the late 90s various companies popped up offering devices for your PC that could emit scents and fragrances into your face. These companies were set to revolutionise the world of gaming and media, by drawing in another one of our crucial human senses. That company was called DigiScents and their product was called iSmell. In this video I talk to creator Joel Bellenson and find out exactly what happend and why we don't have DigiScents flying into our faces at this very moment.

Bush Hid the Facts is a problem with certain versions of Windows, which made text disappear, or turn into unreadable nonsense. It sparked outrage and concern because it seemed to have something to do with the then President, George W. Bush. Combined with the Microsoft Wingdings problem around the word Q33NY (if you know, you know) and things did not look good for Bill Gates.

Google, Google, Google. It's the place MOST of us go to when we need to search the web, these days. But back in the 90s, there were many search engines to choose from, and the choice was not always obvious. In this video, I look at the glory days of search, when AltaVista, Lycos, Excite!, Ask Jeeves, DogPile, InfoSeek and MSN were just some of the choices available. Such exciting times.

The original Donkey Kong Arcade Game is something of a genesis point for Nintendo. It was not only the birthplace of their most famous character, Mario, but also Donkey Kong as well. The thing is, Donkey Kong wasn't made to be a fantastic game, it was actually made solely because of another game, a game which doesn't really get talked about, and because of that, Donkey Kong was made in an impossibly short period of time.

On the Internetnet, Nobody Knows You're a Dog. Ever heard of it? Well, you should of. Illustrated by Peter Steiner, it's one of the most well known cartoons ever to appear in The New Yorker, and it's meaning is pretty profound.

Berzerk, an arcade game designed by Stern Electronics, was apparently responsible for three deaths during the 1980s. Jeff Dailey, Peter Bukowski and Edward Clark Jr. were all supposed victims to this intense arcade machine. In this video, I attempt to substantiate the facts and discover whether any of this is true.

Goodness gracious. Look where we are, the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn, Germany! Why? Well to record a coffee pot, but also, it's an amazing computer museum, and actually the largest computer museum in the world. So here's a video about it. If you can, I'd recommend go taking a look.