We may earn a commission from links on this page. If you asked me to list some of the games I bought or played in 1994, I’d probably start off with Donkey Kong Country and Final Fantasy III, and it ...

Back in September 2014, Ars Technica's Andrew Cunningham took on a Herculean challenge in modern computing. Egged on by his coworkers, he used a PowerBook G4 running OS 9.2.2 as his "daily driver" for ...

With Maximum PC and MacLife’s abandonment of print, the dead-tree era of computer journalism is officially over. It lasted almost half a century—and was quite a run. I spent most of that time at PC ...

In the mid-1990s, as computers became more powerful, software demanded more memory — but RAM was expensive and intimidating to upgrade. Most users weren’t comfortable opening their computers, let ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — “God” was protecting part of the Purdue computer system from hackers in the early 1990s. Computer users without authorization that tapped into “God” – a booby-trapped computer ...

We think of the Internet extending to small devices as a modern trend, but it actually is a good example of how everything makes a circle. Today, we want the network to connect to our thermostat and ...

Ron Shandler’s new book, Fantasy Expert is part memoir, part madcap history. It focuses on the writers and analysts who helped build the industry, as told through the warped personal lens of the ...