Browser games are almost as old as the web itself, and believe you me it saved many a boring computer class in high-school, or eternal Friday afternoon at work.

You might have seen the news reports with tongue-in-cheek segments noting the uptick in people collecting and listening to cassette tapes. Yes, those fiddly plastic rectangles I thought we'd left long behind once people figured out how to put a CD player in a car.

Against all my personal expectations that the fad would pass, vinyl records continue to be popular and there are hobbyists all over the world saying "no thanks" to digital music and prefer dropping a needle onto a vinyl disc.

As someone who lived through the fastest-shrinking period for technology in history, I love things getting smaller. Our first computer at home took up a whole desk, which I believe is why they called it a "desktop." Now, I have a tiny supercomputer in my pocket, which I use to doomscroll nonsensical Instagram videos at 4am.

Xbox, the youngest of the extant major console brands, has been having a rough time over the past few years, with flagging sales and lackluster content starting with the Xbox One and dipping even further into the doldrums with the Xbox Series consoles.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is a resurrection of one of my all-time favorite games. Like many of you, I have spent hundreds if not thousands of hours in this game, so seeing it remastered using the latest graphics technology is awesome.

While a huge number of people play video games in the world, it's still only a fraction of the world population that takes part in this hobby. In fact, if you're a gamer, you probably know that non-gamers don't really take video games very seriously, and even look down on them and their players.

Listening to your own music in your car rather than the radio was a luxury that few could imagine. It's not like you could bring your vinyl records with you—or could you?

20 years ago, a 19-second video in crisp 240p changed everything. You might not remember it, but a humble video simply titled "Me at the zoo" quietly marked the dawn of a new era. Oh, how far we've come since then.