1980s
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9 Failed Designs That Would Have Changed Times Square Forever
Times Square is one big, incredible machine that has the sweet caress of capitalism to thank for its success as much as it does careful city planning. However, when the area was famously filthy in 1984, New York City contemplated a major intervention that would have changed the landscape of Midtown profoundly.
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How Wikipedia Would Have Worked In The 1980s
I’m so thankful I never used a computer in the 1980s, because it looks mind-scrunchingly frustrating. I would probably hate technology because of it. So thank you to all the patient geniuses who took the time to use things like DOS for the rest of us. Even if today’s tools existed back then, it would…
