Dork Yearbook

April 13, 2009 8:42 AM

Dork Yearbook - vintage tech pr0n, now with thicker glasses and footsier pajamas!
posted by carsonb (16 comments total)

Aww, I like how it has a tone of nostalgia and dork-appreciation rather than sneering disapproval.

I still filed the RSS feed in the "Mockery" folder of my RSS reader, though, so who knows what that means.
posted by Juliet Banana at 8:53 AM on April 13

Why do I have to sudden urge to give someone in the IT department a swirlie?
posted by Someone has just shot your horse! at 8:56 AM on April 13

You haven't lived until you've spent a day pretending to be He-Man wearing only your underwear and wielding a sword.
posted by Science! at 8:58 AM on April 13

It's only a matter of time before ColdChef uploads his picture of himself in his Star Wars bedroom.

Oh, wait; I already did it for him. Never mind.
posted by yhbc at 9:00 AM on April 13

Snark-free nostalgia is always appreciated.
posted by tommasz at 9:04 AM on April 13

That's awesome. Thanks, carsonb.
posted by dersins at 9:16 AM on April 13

It's funny, I've been thinking about nostalgia recently. But since I'm raising kids, I'm thinking of *their* future nostalgia. Threadless Ts are cool now, but how dorky will they seem in 2025 (if man is still alive)?
posted by DU at 9:17 AM on April 13

Wow
posted by chillmost at 9:24 AM on April 13

Is this really the Woz?
posted by Mitheral at 10:37 AM on April 13

Oh, geez, this is ADORABLE!
posted by redsparkler at 10:40 AM on April 13

Did anyone notice that there was not one single black child with a computer? That kind of killed it for me.
posted by kuujjuarapik at 10:50 AM on April 13

This made me both want and be glad that there is no picture of me as a 3rd grader with my Sonic 2 t-shirt. (You got the t-shirt if you pre-ordered, I thought it was incredibly cool.)
posted by Hactar at 11:05 AM on April 13

That most certainly is MeFi's own Steve Wozniak.
posted by grubi at 11:09 AM on April 13

Makes me nostalgic for my HeathKit 8086/8088. We had Compuserve at a blazing 1200 Baud.
posted by JeffK at 12:23 PM on April 13

I was dissapointed that they didn't post the matching picture to the one of me at the TRS-80 in "computer camp" (held at the local high school).

If you click through to the Flickr page there's a link to a picture of me (as a high school senior) at the same table in the same lab nine years later, but in front of a PS/2 Model 25.

Of course, when the later picture was taken, I *ran* the lab.
posted by mrbill at 12:57 PM on April 13

fun site! thanks.
posted by msconduct at 6:33 PM on April 13