Veronica Explains: Why Old Computers Were Better at Teaching Us – The Retro Hour EP542

Podcast: The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) · The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

Opublikowano: 2026-07-31

This week, we’re joined by Veronica from the brilliant YouTube channel Veronica Explains for a journey through a lifetime of tinkering with technology. Veronica shares stories of growing up in a family of programmers, exploring the early Internet through Prodigy and GeoCities, inheriting a 50-year-old COBOL codebase, her love of the Commodore 64 and Amiga, the lost art of the computer manual, and why older computers often encouraged us to understand, repair and truly own the technology we used. Veronica Explains: https://veronicaexplains.net/ https://www.youtube.com/@VeronicaExplains Contents: 00:00 – The Week’s Retro...