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Friday, 3 March 2017

In tech, everything old is new again

In tech, everything old is new again — even on the business / finance side: Venture capital was a thing in the 1980s, as we were reminded by the exhaustive Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980s. Better still: Long before Y Combinator, Atari’s founder had a tech incubator in our favourite decade, as the inimitable tech historian-slash-journalist Benj Edwards tells us in The Untold Story of Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell’s Visionary 1980s Tech Incubator for Fast Company.

Want to take a trip down Tech Nostalgia Lane? You could do a lot worse than to check out any one of:

Bonus: 15 Hilarious Technology Ads From the 1980s (print, via Mashable) or 1980s Tech Ads (video, New York magazine, runtime: 1:05).

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