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Andreas
I’m Andreas, and this is the place where I write about all the things that catch my interest. It could be books, it could be music, it could be tech (especially retro tech), it could be random musings about society and philosophy or psychology… whatever comes to my mind.
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Sometimes, the intros to these linkdumps almost write temselves; there is something in the links that gives me an idea or just a random thought that comes into my head and that I feel is worth writing down. Other times, nothing comes to...
Have you ever heard of Whamageddon? I hadn't, until the hashtag recently showed up in my Mastodon feed. According to the wiki site, it's a tongue-in-cheek survival game in which the player must avoid hearing Wham!'s Last Christmas from...
For seven years in school I had the "pleasure" of learning Latin. I'm putting this in quotes because I didn't really like it, except maybe in the beginning. I was never really good at it and therefore didn't get very good grades, which...
The Xbox 360 turned 20 last week. That's kind of crazy to think about. Is it retro now? Somehow it doesn't feel like it, but if a thing that came out 20 years ago isn't retro, then what is? For context, the Amiga came out 40 years ago...
I mentioned in my last post that I bought the complete series Home Improvement, which (translated back to English) is called Look who's hammering in German (I originally said Listen who's hammering which is a more literal translation,...
Recently I've been ill and so I spent a lot of time at home on the couch with nothing to do and not a lot of energy to do anything anyway. And what do you do in 2025 in a situation like this? Of course. I got my phone and my laptop and...
This week was kind of weird. I didn't really come across a lot of interesting stuff online, even though I was online a lot way too much. Maybe the Cloudflare outage killed all the interesting things on the internet? This site is not...
Today I saw a video of David Coverdale announcing his retirement. Coverdale used to sing for Deep Purple in the 70s before starting his own band Whitesnake, which became hugely successful in the 80s. I'm sure you've heard "Here I Go...
Thank god October is over. Usually I really like it - the trees are turning all kinds of beautiful colours, the leaves are falling, the wind is blowing the leaves around etc. But this October was terrible, because I was sick for most of...
Hey everyone, it's Halloween! Except it's not, because I live in Germany and we don't have Halloween, even though the media has relentlessly and with some success tried to introduce it over here as well in recent years. When I was a kid,...
You might think that that's a really weird headline, and you would not be wrong. Let me explain. In the 1960s the Atomic Age arrived in rural South Germany with the construction of the Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant at the Danube...
This week I tried an experiment. I booked a small apartment somewhere in the countryside and went there for three days without bringing any devices with me that could go online. The only things I brought were a dumb phone, formerly known...
I hope this week you all did The Right Thing™ and threw away your old Windows 10 computers. If you haven't yet, what are you waiting for? These things are now a hazard to your and everybody's health and safety! If your computer is not on...
It's Friday again! Which means tomorrow is Saturday, and tomorrow is Retro Computer Festival at HNF in Paderborn, Germany. HNF is an amazing computer museum which alone is worth a visit, but RCF makes it all the more interesting because...
Back in July I tried a service called NINA that aimed to bring back ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, AOL and a few other internet services from the 90s and 2000s. I registered an ICQ number and chatted with a few people and it was fun. Now it's...