A long, long time ago in Minneapolis, this question loomed over a small group of eighth-graders. Appearing on a teletype machine—basically a primitive computer keyboard connected to a printer—at ...

A newly-released Nintendo Switch game in Japan requires a roll of toilet paper to play. It sounds ridiculous, but the game No Paper! developed by Takuhiro Miyazawa relies on a Joy-Con controller ...

Papetura is a point-and-click adventure game made entirely out of physical, real paper. It's a project six years in the making and developer Tomasz Ostafin cut and glued together every character, item ...

Yesterday, a Winnipeg, Canada-based artist named Rocky Bergen released a free collection of miniature papercraft vintage computer models that hobbyists can assemble for fun. They are available on The ...

Perhaps it was when I unspooled tape from an old reel-to-reel player and created a beast out of its ribbons, or maybe it was when I saw a tree sprout hot air balloons. It also could have been when I ...

In 1936, the British mathematician Alan Turing came up with an idea for a universal computer. It was a simple device: an infinite strip of tape covered in zeros and ones, together with a machine that ...

Before Pong there was Computer Space, the first commercial video game. The progenitor of today’s US$175 billion industry debuted on Oct. 15, 1971, at the Music Operators of America trade show in ...