The Sad Decline of the London Trocadero

It’s true, it’s sadly all true. It wasn’t always this way. In the 1990s, the historic building was salvaged for the purpose of creating the biggest “leisure space” in London, packed with a Nickelodeon studios, Pepsi IMAX and its crowning glory, SegaWorld, which was essentially just loads of arcade games and a giant statue of…

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Five Secrets About Minecraft

Quib.ly has five things you may not have known about Minecraft, including Killer Bunnies: There is however, one deadly exception. Whenever a rabbit is spawned by the game there is a small chance that what will appear is not the twitchy-nosed ball of cuteness you might expect, but a terrifying killer rabbit with glowing red…

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Kids and Computers in the 80s vs Today

The above video from a 1984 episode of Sesame Street titled “What is a computer?” (Link) is an interesting predecessor to the more recent “Kids React to Old Computers”. Given that the both videos are separated by not only a generation gap, but also the settings in which they were filmed (a classroom and a…

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