This article discusses planned obsolescence, the limitation of product usability, and its connection to classic products to point out the flexibility of the term.

The article explores the skillful and laborious work that was necessary to make the supposedly universal computer usable locally. To achieve this, it explores the role of home computer periodicals in Greece, particularly the magazine Pixel.

This article investigates the community of Commodore Amiga computer users in early post- communist Poland by focusing on the constructions of rituals in the community and a shared identity. This case study is used to examine the usefulness of the concept of brand community for consumer culture research.

The article reconstructs the history of underground software transfer in the second half of the 1980s between the core countries of the home computer software industry and its ‘peripheries’ both in the Eastern Bloc and in the ‘Global South’, and the geographical expansion of the cracking scene in this process.

The history of Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) in Finland started in 1982. This article provides a case study, focusing on the general history of the Finnish BBS culture.

This article investigates the relationship between the Swedish demoscene and the formation of the Swedish game industry in the 1980s and 1990s. It explores the generational aspects of this symbiosis, and looks at the interrelations between subcultural and entrepreneurial practices.