The independent guide to vintage technology. Remember VCR games and boom boxes?

It takes a special kind of failure to make it into this list. A game has to be more than boring or poorly executed. To become one of the 20 Worst, it starts as a bad idea and ends by actually lowering the quality of life of people who haven't played it. [

The following list was compiled after hours of lively debate, pages of exhausting science and one actual geek fistfight.

The video-game department of The International Arcade Museum, has provided the Internet's largest database of coin-operated video-games since the earliest days of the Internet.

You can now relive, play, and enjoy old Apple 2 games and other disks through the internet and web browser. [via metafilter]

Run Macintosh OS 7 from a USB stick.

GUIs from January 1984 through 2007. Mac and PC (Windows) screens, plus a bit of Linux.

It's been around since 1971, although 1978 was the first Internet-based spam. [via eudyptes]

Reminiscing about the predecessor to America Online, which was designed for Commodore 64 computers.