Putting vacuum tubes in a PC might sound a little like adding a hand crank to a Porsche, but at least one company thinks it might be the future of computer audio. Taiwanese components company AOpen, ...

Before the release of the Intel AC '97 standard, computer sound was frequently an add-on feature. To use anything other than a small, monophonic internal speaker, you'd need to buy a card that plugged ...

A sound that for many was their first introduction to the online world is falling silent after decades. AOL has announced that it will no longer offer dial-up internet service, the Associated Press ...

Before the AdLib sound card, sound on PCs was in a terrible shape. Since the dawn of IBM, all PCs included a speaker, but this PC speaker was only capable of sounding one note at a time. Chords on the ...

In this guide, we'll show you how to build a retro gaming PC, based on original hardware from the 1990s, with a few modern touches. It can run DOS games and early Windows games, but it'll also look ...

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 ...

Sim founded the company in 1981 and had remained at its head ever since. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sim Wong Hoo, who ...

These killer one-hit wonders from the 1990s still sound super fresh today, and even younger audiences are jamming out to them nowadays.

The fact of way some songs become hits has strange ways of doing so - they might hit the right nerve of the critics and audiences at one point, for them to change their minds as time passes. At the ...

Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard and Eddie Vedder onstage in the early 1990s (photo: Ebet Roberts / Redferns). The dominant new musical trend of the early 1990s was also one of the most improbable. Emerging ...