Why the Virtual Reality Vision of the 90s Failed

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Hipster Runoff was a music blog that captivated audiences and critics since its inception in 2007. Until recently, the creative powerhouse behind Hipster Runoff remained a complete secret, but after selling off the blog, the author bares all to Motherboard (via Gchat) as the story takes a closer look at what made Hipster Runoff such a memorable corner of the internet. [Motherboard]

A daughter deals with the death of her "old school techie" father and how it can be difficult to execute a will in the digital age. The writer narrates as she travels through a labyrinth of old online accounts, broken laptops, and automated fire alarm systems in order to digitally lay her father to rest. [Medium]

Carl Sagan once said that you have to know the past to understand the present. In technology, that may seem impossible—things are usually following the steady march of progress after all—but the modern day battle for Net Neutrality isn't the first of its kind. In fact, it has a lot in common with the 1940s and radio freedom. [The Atlantic]

Virtual reality is everywhere, and if the explosion of VR films and games is an indicator, it's here to stay, but it's not the first time VR has tried to enter the mainstream. Kill Screen looks into virtual reality's short-lived life in the 90s and where the tech went wrong. [Kill Screen]

GIF from ABC Primetime Report (1991)

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