I Miss

February 2nd 2022

I Miss Electroplankton: The Nintendo DS’ Weird and Wonderful Musical Toy

Nintendo being weird and whimsical is Nintendo at its best.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Feb 2

January 26th 2022

I Miss the GameCube WaveBird, the Best Controller Nintendo Ever Made

After the questionable N64 gamepad, Nintendo reached controller perfection with the WaveBird.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jan 26

November 17th 2021

I Miss the Peek, My Cheap and Simple Email-Only Travel Buddy

It was a boring mobile device, but what it promised it did well for the price.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Nov 17

October 20th 2021

I Miss Seiko’s Weird Pyramid Clock, My First Positive Experience With Talking Electronics

Before Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant made our devices talk, this digital pyramid would read you the time.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Oct 20

September 29th 2021

I Miss the Dial-Up Modem Sound

Why did the dial-up modem sound that way, decades ago? Why did I love it?

Gadgets Whitney Kimball Sep 29

September 22nd 2021

I Miss Mario Paint, When Nintendo Gamified Art Class

The tutorials that completely blew our teenage minds. Could you really do all of this in Mario Paint?

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 22

September 1st 2021

I Miss the Sega Dreamcast My Brother and I Put on Layaway but Never Got (Because He Stole the Money)

Like so many other kids in 1999, I wanted a Dreamcast. And believe me I paid a hefty price for it.

Gadgets Harri Weber Sep 1

August 4th 2021

I Miss My Pikachu Nintendo 64

It survived growing up with three girl gamers, and has the stickers to prove it.

Gadgets Alyse Stanley Aug 4

July 28th 2021

I Miss Apple’s Best iPod

The iPod shuffle was one of Apple's simplest devices. It was also one of my favorites.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jul 28

July 14th 2021

I Miss My First (and Only) Medium Format Camera

I bought my first new analog camera right as digital photography came to kill it.

Gadgets Brian Kahn Jul 14

June 23rd 2021

I Miss the Netbook That Made Me Feel Cool for a Summer

The summer before the iPad, my dreams came true with the cute but flawed Asus Eee PC.

Gadgets Florence Ion Jun 23

June 16th 2021

I Miss Using Floppy Disks as Small Treasure Chests for Fanfiction

An aging computer and a stash of floppy disks held the key to my young imagination.

Gadgets Jody Serrano Jun 16

June 9th 2021

I Miss the Dreamy, Lo-Fi Mystery of the Windows 95 Maze Screensaver

It always felt like something important was about to reveal itself to you around the next turn, but it never did.

Gadgets Brianna Provenzano Jun 9

May 26th 2021

I Miss My Soviet Diafilm Projector

By the time I was born in 1987, the filmstrip projector was already vintage: a musty, overheating box with a brittle lightbulb glowing yellow out of the vent. For the Soviet Union public, the once widely popular tech could not compete with VHS, but I was not interested in VHS. I preferred to hole up…

Gadgets Marina Galperina May 26

April 28th 2021

I Miss Watching Horribly Compressed Movies on My Game Boy

Recently the internet has stared in disbelief at people horribly compressing movies so they can fit on outdated tech, including Shrek squeezed onto a 1.4 MB floppy disk, and Tenet smooshed across five GBA cartridges. But as horrible as these viewing experiences seem, for a short period of time watching TV shows on the Game…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Apr 28

March 24th 2021

I Miss My Family’s Collection of CRT TVs

“Wow, you guys have so many TVs.” That’s what my friends would say when they’d come over to my house in elementary and middle school. It was a 3-bedroom English Tudor with a basement and attic, and in almost every room there was a boxy CRT TV. They were all sorts of sizes, and the biggest…

Gadgets Victoria Song Mar 24

March 17th 2021

I Miss My First PC

Most of my early childhood memories are filled with vivid flashes of new and unusual experiences, like the time I climbed out of my crib and landed flat on my ass. Just a few years later, I remember using my first Windows PC that solidified the trajectory of the rest of my life. It was…

Gadgets Joanna Nelius Mar 17

February 17th 2021

I Miss My First Real Digital Camera, a 3.3-Megapixel Wonder

The Game Boy Camera might have been my first foray into digital photography, but my first real digital camera—the one that taught me the basics of photography and digital post-processing—was also one of the first true prosumer digital cameras to hit the market in 2000: the Canon PowerShot G1. Although my uncle had a basement…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Feb 17

February 3rd 2021

I Miss Experimenting With My Grandparents’ Old Sony Handycam

It’s hard to miss a gadget the size of a shoebox when the smartphone in my pocket outperforms it in every way possible. But I miss my grandparents’ ‘90s-era Sony Handycam and the fun videography experiments my siblings and I concocted in an effort to avoid being pushed out the door to play outside. In…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Feb 3

January 27th 2021

I Miss My Walkman and My Secret Cassette Collection

In the summer of 1997, the only reason I survived a family road trip through western Canada was my trusty Walkman. It wasn’t my dad’s Walkman, which was adult, boring, and gray. While I can’t quite find it on Google, mine was teal with hot pink accents—sort of like this Sanyo MGR78 though not quite.…

Gadgets Victoria Song Jan 27

I Miss

I Miss Electroplankton: The Nintendo DS’ Weird and Wonderful Musical Toy

I Miss the GameCube WaveBird, the Best Controller Nintendo Ever Made

I Miss the Peek, My Cheap and Simple Email-Only Travel Buddy

I Miss Seiko’s Weird Pyramid Clock, My First Positive Experience With Talking Electronics

I Miss the Dial-Up Modem Sound

I Miss Mario Paint, When Nintendo Gamified Art Class

I Miss the Sega Dreamcast My Brother and I Put on Layaway but Never Got (Because He Stole the Money)

I Miss My Pikachu Nintendo 64

I Miss Apple’s Best iPod

I Miss My First (and Only) Medium Format Camera

I Miss the Netbook That Made Me Feel Cool for a Summer

I Miss Using Floppy Disks as Small Treasure Chests for Fanfiction

I Miss the Dreamy, Lo-Fi Mystery of the Windows 95 Maze Screensaver

I Miss My Soviet Diafilm Projector

I Miss Watching Horribly Compressed Movies on My Game Boy

I Miss My Family’s Collection of CRT TVs

I Miss My First PC

I Miss My First Real Digital Camera, a 3.3-Megapixel Wonder

I Miss Experimenting With My Grandparents’ Old Sony Handycam

I Miss My Walkman and My Secret Cassette Collection

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