Secret underground vault contains all Lego sets in history

I watched The Lego Movie once again. Like the first time, I cried like a little kid. It's a good movie, but the strong emotional reaction came from deep inside, firing the same childhood memories that The Lego Memory Lane—Leg0 HQ's underground secret vault with all their sets—did when I visited it in Billund, Denmark. » 5/31/14 7:39am 5/31/14 7:39am

Watch London in 1924 & 2014 get combined into one time traveling video

London is a city with so much history that you're always curious about what happened before. Who stood on this street? Where did this come from? What happened when? And because London's architecture has remarkably stayed the same over the years, it's easy to "time travel" and compare what life was like back then to… » 4/28/14 10:30pm 4/28/14 10:30pm

All the Weird Toys From Your Childhood

I don't know you. I don't know where you're from or what you look like or how old you are. You might be a judge or a cook or a priest or a clown. I don't know. But what I'm pretty sure about is that at one point or another, you've been involved with most of the toys below. It's just one of those things that we all… » 4/23/14 2:40pm 4/23/14 2:40pm

Relive All of Your Favorite Retro Computer Reboots on One Website

Remember a time when every single software update you made to your computer's OS or applications required a complete reboot of the system? Computers are still far from perfect, but over at The Restart Page you can relive those annoying and constant operating system restarts of yesteryear, and appreciate how far things… » 4/16/14 3:00pm 4/16/14 3:00pm

This neat animation makes me miss my childhood gadgets so much

Here is some guaranteed nostalgia for you. Follow the life of a Game Boy in this wonderful animation: watch it get assembled in a factory and packaged for an excited kid and see it get played by youthful thumbs and then eventually be tossed away by a teenager. It's every toy's story. Throughout its journey you'll see… » 4/02/14 9:14pm 4/02/14 9:14pm

Adult-sized child made a street legal Little Tikes Car that goes 70mph

Do you know what the most disappointing thing about being an adult is? It's not the slow metabolism or the achy joints or the plateau of growth, it's the fact that we're all failures to our childhood selves. We don't eat candy, we don't play with toys and we drive responsible vehicles. Not John Bitmead though, he's… » 1/31/14 8:32pm 1/31/14 8:32pm

Seeing every single Nintendo NES video game start screen is so fun

Wow. NicksplosionFX just created a time machine of emotions by stitching together every single—yes, every single—original Nintendo NES video game start screen in one epic video. The whole shabang lasts 3 hours and goes in alphabetical order and has so many memorable beeps and boops that you can't help but feel like a… » 1/22/14 9:32pm 1/22/14 9:32pm

Give Your Browser Some Serious Nostalgia With These Emulator Websites

Want to stroll down virtual memory lane? You could futz around with classic software on a virtual machine or rummage through yard sales for a working model of your first computer. Or, you could cruise the classic Windows and Mac OS emulator sites found by Ars Technica. Which sounds a hell of a lot easier. » 1/18/14 9:00am 1/18/14 9:00am



Everything you didn't notice about Back to the Future


Watch 75 years of title sequences from 234 different animated movies

Irina Neustroeva made this incredible video that mashes up 75 years of opening title sequence for animated movies. There's 234 films here including all your favorites like Toy Story, The Lion King, Shrek but also a lot of lesser known flicks and completely forgotten animated movies too. » 10/31/13 10:12pm 10/31/13 10:12pm

If You Could Turn Back the Clock on Tech, What Year Would You Choose?

The Toronto Sun has the story of a Canadian family so fed up with modern technology that they've reverted back to 1986. And that goes for everything — they've ditched their smartphones and closed their social media accounts. They're listening to audio cassettes, using fax machines, and even wearing their hair in… » 9/10/13 6:17pm 9/10/13 6:17pm

Watching This Video Will Make You Happy with 1990 Nostalgia

When you look back in time, it's easy to forget what exactly happened when. Things sort of just blend together. Luckily we have YouTube videos to do our remembering for us now. Remember Videos just created a video about 1990 that shows off all that happened in pop culture back then, think Windows 3.0 Back to the… » 6/20/13 9:00pm 6/20/13 9:00pm