Relive the 1980s with a book that looks at some excellent, decades-old computer graphics. Relive the 1980s with a book that looks at some excellent, decades-old computer graphics.

Marilyn Monroe getting ready for her close-up in a movie of the future March, 1994 Popular Mechanics A couple of weeks ago audiences at the Coachella music festival got to see Tupac perform live (NSFW ...

Back in the early 1980s, a spinning square world heralded the start of a computer animation revolution, as this archive BBC footage shows. Back in 1982, computing was really going mainstream. Tron, ...

Computers are now an essential part of our lives and social communication, but back in the 1970s and 1980s only the University and research centres had such equipment. In the late 1970s we had video ...

When computer graphics was in its infancy—well before CG dinosaurs appeared—a simple 3D model of a teapot was used for testing software and new rendering techniques. And the simple lines of Normann ...

You can’t beat a good ol’ trip down memory lane sometimes, so we’re kicking things off today with a look at where many great gaming stories began. Sure, gaming existed pre-1980, and while the common ...