stackyFACTSBuying software used to mean carrying home a massive rectangular carton the size of a cereal box. Despite the massive packaging, the inside usually contained a single floppy disk or CD sitting in a massive sea of empty air. It was a massive waste of shelf space purely designed to catch your eye in an electronics store.
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Opening a fresh plastic case used to mean inhaling the smell of a fifty-page booklet. These miniature magazines contained character backstories, control…
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William G. Morgan invented the sport in 1895 as a gentler alternative to basketball, naming it Mintonette. Fortunately, someone pointed out that this sounded…
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Before the noisy electronic versions and plastic grids, bored soldiers in muddy trenches played the exact same guessing grid on cheap scrap paper. It was a…
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The Joker did not exist in standard decks until American Euchre players in the 1860s demanded a designated trump card. So we can blame the Midwest for that…
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Rather than a chaotic children's activity, this was famously enjoyed by grown aristocrats in sixteenth-century England. Henry VIII's courtiers would routinely…
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Instead of drawing new enemies, older developers would just take an existing character, change their digital shirt from blue to red, and declare them a…
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