A Retro Podcast, Blog, and Newsletter.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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Hypercolor
I remember seeing Hypercolor shirts down at the Jersey shore the summer they came out. Like a lot of people, I wanted one. By the time I actually got a shirt that Christmas, a few months later, the trend was already fading. I might not have...
Retroist Diet Coke Podcast
Diet Coke was a regular presence in our house almost as soon as it became available. Before that my family usually bought two bottles of Coca Cola each month, and I could count on drinking my share before it disappeared. Then my mom tried D...
Retroist RCA Studio II Podcast
Listen now | Looking back at the Home Programmer
The RCA Studio 2 was a system I knew mostly because it would turn up in discussions of failed video game consoles. It came from RCA in 1977, played games in black and white, and used a pair...
Bonus Track (Presentism, Moral Panic, Chronocentrism, and things that haven't aged well)
Listen now | Random Ramblings about various things.
A while ago I posted some ramblings about Rockism and poptimism. I got a lot of nice messages from people about that Bonus Track, so I thought I would record something similar about Prese...
The Rise and Fall of Fotomat
There was a Fotomat in the parking lot of the Acme Supermarket in my hometown. It was still open when I was a kid but barely. That same supermarket started processing film as well and that took away a lot of it business. Still, it didn’t cl...
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