iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

At some point in ancient prehistory someone asked this same question and invented the basket. Then I guess baskets just kept getting bigger, along with the mechanisms and machines used to move them 😁

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 17h

You’re damn right I did (But also, jeeze—do you have to email me about it?)

Email from home depot: The Home Depot
9:52 AM

You recently bought Small Pie Pumpkin. Tell...

How many stars would you give your recent

in-store purchase? View as web page RATE...

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 26/09/2026

camouflage carpet is what the army uses to hide its floors

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 09/09/2026

Did I ever show you guys my collection of Golden nature guides? So many amazing illustrations in these This is how I learned about bugs, birds, trees, spiders, and reptiles when I was a kid 😁 I have expanded the collection since then though!

Benj’s bookshelf with small nature guide books

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 08/09/2026

The future’s gonna be really cool if you just sorta…hide in your house

Meta Glasses advertisement on a Wal-Mart shipping box

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 08/09/2026

I'm a fan of solitaire card games, so I designed my own browser game for fun. In Paydirt Solitaire, you navigate a branching 52-card deck to grab tools and mine gems. Math says there's a way to get 51 gems, but I haven't done it yet. If you figure it out, let me know! www.bxfoundry.com/paydirt/

BX Foundry's Paydirt Solitaire screenshot

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 06/09/2026

Upon deeper thought, I feel that BURGERTIME should not merely be a classic arcade video game but also a distinctive time of day. Say, 6:30 PM

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 04/09/2026

It is done. My computer collection is now safely contained in a top secret underground storage facility, ready to be rapidly mobilized whenever the urgent need for tech history arises

Photo of a bunch of boxes and shelves in a storage unit

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 03/09/2026

We have this really fat cardinal named Gary that hangs out in our yard and he’s awesome

Gary the red cardinal bird sitting on a fence

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 01/09/2026

The world should embrace Bulbous Computing (TM) once again

The bulbous back sides of an eMac and three G3 iMacs

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 01/09/2026

In case you were wondering where this 9 Volt AC adapter falls on the D&D Alignment System, it’s written on the label

HOLY GOOD AC ADAPTOR
MODEL NO: DV-0930AC
PART NO :HG-0930AC
INPUT: 120VAC 60Hz 5W
OUTPUT : 9VAC 300mA
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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 31/08/2026

If you had this many G3 iMacs (and an eMac), who would you throw them at 😜

Four iMac g3s and one eMac on a wire metal shelf in Benj’s garage

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 28/08/2026

The Commodore VIC-20 was John Carmack’s first computer

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 28/08/2026

“Honey would you like to join me for a wine-and-grapes country picnic? Fromage! We can watch television using the Home Accents 3-in-1 Portable TV with Radio and CD Player.”

Home Accents 3-in-1 Portable TV with Radio and CD Player box

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 28/08/2026

I just used a DEC PDP-11/73 as a step stool to help me change a lightbulb, AMA

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 28/08/2026

Pour one our for the big ‘ole chonky HP keyboard with lots of extra buttons that required special drivers that would crash your Windows ME computer

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 28/08/2026

Argh I am wrestling here with questions like do I pay people to haul the non-working HP 735/125 workstation to storage that no one wants, or trash it, or scavenge parts. And nobody told me what to do about the three Dell LCD monitors the other day. It’s just a lot of stuff… Plight of the hoarder

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 28/08/2026

What would you do if you had this many balls* *Sanwa joystick balltops

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 27/08/2026

The MouseSystems ProAgio! mouse (ca.1994) was the first mouse with a scroll wheel as we know it today. Lots of extra buttons too “A Giant Leap in Windows Productivity!” This is the Win 3.11 era

MouseSystems ProAgio! mouse (ca.1994) box back “A Giant Leap in Windows Productivity!”

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 26/08/2026

I have three or four dusty 2000s-era Dell LCD monitors and I am trying to figure out which one to keep. First world problems Highest resolution or best aspect ratio? Leaning toward 5:4 myself

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 26/08/2026

The third celebrity to die is part of my computer collection, which is at the end of the road after 33 years. I can’t sustain this while I take care of my mom I am exaggerating some (not going in the trash), but if you have creative ideas that miraculously involve lots of money, let me know via DM

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 26/08/2026

The lost rubber feet collection

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 26/08/2026

For some weird reason when I was cleaning out my mom and dad‘s house a few years ago, I saved my dad‘s ancient Brasso and Simonize chrome cleaner cans. He used them for ages. He always said there’s some chemical in them that they don’t sell anymore, although I’m guessing it’s for a good reason 😂

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 21/08/2026

My dad bought the HP iPAQ rx3100 on January 6, 2005 for $349.99 at Staples. IIRC he got bored of it quickly and gave it to me 😂

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 21/08/2026

Before the iPhone era, this HP iPAQ rx3100 (2004) was my favorite mobile device. Windows Pocket PC, touchscreen with stylus. Built-in Wi-Fi felt so wildly futuristic. I played a lot of games on this thing when I was bored

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 21/08/2026

The Logitech Scanman Plus (ca. 1989) was my first scanner. My dad bought a returned clearance unit at Electronics Boutique a few years later, and I used it to scan my 8th grade school portrait and put it into a Wolfenstein 3D graphics mod 😁 — grayscale only!

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 09/08/2026

What’s wrong with American healthcare pt.3624: Bloodwork testing giant LabCorp “misses” me and wants me to get more blood tests 🤦‍♂️

Email screenshot: Labcorp OnDemand
To: Benj >
10:41 AM
We miss you! Enjoy 10% off your next health test.
• labcorp OnDemand

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 09/08/2026

Find someone who looks at you the way the 1940s jolly green giant looks at corn

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 23/07/2026

There's something slightly anachronistic-feeling about seeing the latest tech news on CompuServe.com 😁

Screenshot: CompServe Gadgets & Tech news section

"OpenAI says rogue AI models broke free from human control. Some see it as a 'warning shot'
By BARBARA ORTUTAY, KAITLYN HUAMANI and MATT O'BRIEN
AP Technology Writers

It is the kind of development once seen only in science fiction: An artificial intelligence system, trained to probe for digital vulnerabilities, breaks free of human control and acts on its own to hack another company.

The attack announced this week by OpenAI, which blamed rogue AI models, underscored the blistering growth in the technology’s capabilities. For many, it also added urgency to questions about whether and how it can be prevented from causing mayhem on a bigger scale, with more serious consequences.

In what OpenAI called an “unprecedented” episode, the company said its advanced AI models used stolen credentials to break into the servers of an AI startup. It started in what was supposed to be a “highly isolated” testing environment, with reduced guardrails, before the AI agent found its way onto the internet."

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 21/07/2026

Slam! for Windows 3.1 is a very simple-looking air hockey game, but the satisfying realistic sound effects make it worth playing. Fun little game, great with the mouse

Screenshot of Slam! (WinSlam?) on a WIndows 3.1 computer. It shows a green table hockey board

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 19/07/2026

Halloween decor for sale in July is kinda scary 😜 I have this feeling that in 20 years all major holidays will be celebrated simultaneously

Home Depot screenshot “halloween decor is here - shop now”

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 19/07/2026

Hey, where does this tube…goOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 19/07/2026

A screenshot of my Windows quick launch toolbar apps circa 2002 -- I kinda miss these little guys 😁

Screenshot of a Windows 2000 toolbar with 13 small app icons for things like Paint Shop Pro 9, Netscape, Internet Explorer, MS-DOS Command Prompt, FrontPage 2000, Notepad, Zmud, CuteFPT, WinAmp, Calculator, and PuTTY

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 15/07/2026

Lo, the understated beauty of a 1997 MapQuest map

Screenshot of a Mapquest map of Little Rock Arkansas captured in 1999 and enlarged 200%, with map data dated to 1997.

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 10/07/2026

If aliens want to capture me and let me live out my remaining years locked in vivarium that looks like this, I think I'd be OK 😜

Vintage photo of a 1980s bedroom with teal walls, oak furniture, a blue-and-green striped bed with storage drawers underneath, a bookshelf, an Apple II computer on a wooden desk, wall maps, a giant novelty pencil, and a St. Louis Cardinals cap.

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 10/07/2026

From a 1970s book about home storage ideas

Illustration of a car in a garage with a hammock-like net full of junk suspended over it

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 04/07/2026

Looks like Frogger was a true story

Three turtles sitting on a log in a lake

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 04/07/2026

Happy July 4th! To my knowledge, the Atari Jaguar (1993) was the last major video game console assembled in the USA Atari contracted with IBM to handle production of the console and accessories in Charlotte, NC. Some later controllers were made in China

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 04/07/2026

Does anybody know what this connector type is called (maybe some Molex but what type)

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 03/07/2026

✨“…for all the precious moments in life, there’s BEYGORM.” ✨

Cardboard box that has “BEYGORM” printed on the side. From Amazon

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 02/07/2026

I love finding weird random images in my file archives -- here's a Packard Bell computer startup image circa 1997

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 19/06/2026

“It’s real and I can touch it, so at least we know where we stand” 😊

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 02/06/2026

This is me and my hair on Christmas 1997, age 16. Looks like my parents gave me Colony Wars, PS1 GameShark, Duke Nukem 64, and an extra N64 controller. (And an obligatory 1990s UFO book, of course.) Not bad! 😁

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 24/05/2026

Oak Ridge National Laboratory group photo (my guess circa 1953). My grandfather is the man in black, of course 😂

Oak Ridge National Laboratory operated by carbide and carbon chemicals division union carbide and carbon corporation, group photo 1950s

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