If you grew up before the age of smartphones, you probably remember when electronics were built to last—and when owning the ...

Though Gabriel Dominic-Dunlap didn’t grow up with cassettes, he’s now a collector who can be seen sporting a personal tape ...

From typewriters to blenders, record players to lava lamps, these everyday household objects have become 1970s collectibles.

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History’s real disruptors often hide beneath the user interface. Reed Hastings taught us where untapped data hides.

If you look at just about any object, there’s a high chance that a person collects that object. Collectors find value just about everywhere, and even more so if you swirl in a little bit of nostalgia ...

In the spring semester of 1974, the band gathered in Frantz’s Benefit Street apartment to record a cassette demo tape ... although this one comes from outside the Sony camp. It’s a 7” single of the ...

In a report dated July 22, 1975, the Federal Bureau of Investigation recorded the details behind one of the biggest raids of a pirated movie collection in the agency’s history. The previous December, ...

A nostalgic look back at the decade of excess, the 1980s, reveals a time when conspicuous consumption reached new heights.

Before smartphones and streaming, a wave of quirky, world-changing inventions taught Boomers what it felt like to live on the ...

‘Don’t you find her a problem, being Italian and everything? Don’t you find the language barrier a problem? Don’t you think you’d be better off with someone who was English and more your own age?’ ...