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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 24/09/2026

Spy vs. Spy ~ Spent hours playing this with my brother. It's such an entertaining two player experience, yet also so easy to grasp.

A white spy stands in a room above, and a black spy below

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 21/09/2026

An Acorn Archimedies running the Drax Coal Fired Power Station laser disc. A perfect pairing.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 16/09/2026

I just pulled a muscle by yawning. Is this old age?

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 15/09/2026

Free Palestine doesn't mean you're anti-Semitic. It means you're anti-murder.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 10/09/2026

Released for the BBC Micro in 1984, Elite was one of the first home computer games to use wire-frame 3D graphics with hidden-line removal.

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Kim Justice @kimjustice.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Been sitting on this for a min but here's some news. I'm writing the official book for the fabulous Rubber-Keyed Wonder ZX Spectrum documentary! It's an honour and privilege and I hope to do it justice. The pre-launch Kickstarter page is live now :) www.kickstarter.com/projects/48k...

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Coming soon: The Rubber-Keyed Wonder: The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Story

Celebrating the 45th Anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1982 - 2027)

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 08/09/2026

Rescued a lamp from the rubbish tip. Dont @ me

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 06/09/2026

Today we're skipping Granny's Garden and going straight to Bubble Bobble.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 04/09/2026

Having a lil look at a prototype Quarter Scale Battlezone. Anyone got any questions about it?

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 03/09/2026

Went to the tip, found a matching school chair for my BBC Micro school desk 😍

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 03/09/2026

Fantastic place to visit ~ absolutely essential computer history. I recommend going if you can get there.

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IT History Society @ithistory.org · 02/09/2026

We recommend traveling to see @tnmoc.bsky.social on Bletchley Park, but second-best would be to check out this long-form (30min) super-tour by @nostalgianerd.com — amazing discussion of some of the very first computing devices (and ending with classic home computers of late '70s and early '80s)!

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Nico ↙️↙️↙️ @dasnico80s.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026

Superbe vidéo de @nostalgianerd.com… l’impact énorme de Bletchley Park et de ses chercheurs est trop souvent mis de côté face à ce que les Américains ont apporté à l’informatique.

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These Machines Need to be Studied

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 31/08/2026

Remember when Google's motto was "Don't be evil" and then they binned it in 2015.

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_lemon @andylemon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Really fab vid from @nostalgianerd.com on The National Museum of Computing, class bits on Collosus, Enigma, Crytography/cryptanalysis, Ciphers and more. Proper enjoyed this! :) <3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgwq... #computing #history

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These Machines Need to be Studied

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 27/08/2026

Gamescom peeps; I'll give you a free packet of crisps if you go up to Christian and whisper "hello chip dipper" into his ear.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 21/08/2026

These bad boys are ICL 7181 Visual Display Units. Introduced in the 60s as mainframe terminals, they actually used nickel delay lines as memory. This stored data as acoustic sound waves in a coiled wire 🤯

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 20/08/2026

This majestic DEC VT240 from 1984, impressively ran on a single chip microcontroller version of the PDP-11. A system that took up an entire room the prior decade.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 19/08/2026

Another ICL Terminal. 7501, used as a mainframe operator console, and featuring a memory mapped display 🫪 These things could literally run Pac-Man or Space Invaders, and indeed, did.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 18/08/2026

This little wedge is a DEC VK100 GIGI. Here it's hooked up to a PDP-11, but in 1981 it was intended for education and massively outsold by competitors.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 18/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who donated during our @su2c.bsky.social @su2c BIG BUILD! Still *quite* a lot do to, but... THE GATES OF MINAS TIRITH ARE ERECT.

Marta sitting defiantly behind the gates of Minas Tirith

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 17/08/2026

This hot piece of ass is an ICL 7700 Terminal from 1979. Commonly used to connect to ICL mainframes, but also with its own built-in computer.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 17/08/2026

Incredibly excited to see an ICL 2966 Mainframe system from 1982.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 14/08/2026

The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time.

Marta and Snerd on the left. A massive fuq off castle on the right made of plastic bricks. God help us all.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 12/08/2026

The Swindon Advertiser showing how not to look at the eclipse in August 1999

A woman using a mirror, hands and something else to try and shield her eyes from the sun

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 11/08/2026

~ The return of Pocket Pixel Design is a sign the world is healing

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Stand Up To Cancer @su2c.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The #StandUpBuildersTeam, a community of #LEGO brick builders and crafters, share who they stand up for and why they fundraise for SU2C! ❤️ Join them for the 6th annual #Up2Us to #StandUpToCancer event this August to help raise vital funds for cancer research at StandUpBuilders.org. #SU2CStreamTeam

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Ash @ashsaidhi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hi! Thank you for an INCREDIBLE Amiga August day! Thank you Shadroch @itsmastodon.bsky.social @retrogradetom.bsky.social @dcbueller.bsky.social @nostalgianerd.com DechartGames hashiraelements @nikoheart.com lintfordpickle @bobbeigh.com @amigabill.bsky.social for the raids! See you tomorrow!

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 30/07/2026

I feel ridiculous doing anything in my life knowing that the world is literally burning. Buying a pizza ✅ Ridiculous Posting about my day ✅ Ridiculous Watching an advert for bottled water ✅ Ridiculous

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 14/07/2026

Thank you so much to everyone who donated to @specialeffect.org.uk @specialeffect to help with their amazing work! We managed to get across the line before the end of race car swept us up 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🚗 @thisismarta.bsky.social @myunie

Nerd and Marta at the end of the London10k, with medals and sunburn

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 09/07/2026

This weekend @myunie and I are running @thelondon10k raising for the amazing @specialeffectteam If you'd like to sponsor us and help this super cause, link is in my bio. Thank youuuu!

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 07/07/2026

Being a nerd of these things, I had a nice chat to BBC Look East about dying physical media and technology.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 01/07/2026

Sony 🤝 Bitrot [ensuring your games don't last forever]

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 01/07/2026

Hooooo boy! It feels like ~2018 all over again!

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 27/06/2026

Argh, it's really annoying when you spend over a month on a video, and you realise you've made a dumass mistake. But yes, as correctly pointed out, I flash up an image of Alexey Pajitnov instead of Henk Rogers for a couple of seconds 🥴😫 Please forgib.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 26/06/2026

I've just realised that I haven't yet made the second part of my documentary on the ZX Spectrum. THE FIRST PART IS NOW 9 YEARS OLD. why am i like this. youtu.be/I9dHI6EwWTU?...

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Sinclair ZX Spectrum Story - Birth of a Classic | Nostalgia Nerd

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 26/06/2026

Thanks to everyone who joined! ~ Was good fun :)

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 26/06/2026

The Atari Lynx Story premieres at 8pm BST 26th June 2026. Join us youtu.be/RcjbMCRErz4?...

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 26/06/2026

New System Story going out today. Wikipedia is gonna need a bit of a rewrite...

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 24/06/2026

I have made a sponsored video, but put in it what I consider to be premium Abobo based content, and I would like you to watch it if you like big bad Abobos. If you do not want to, that is ok. youtu.be/_I300e-0hFU?...

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I Have a Very Specific Dream... | RayNeo Air4 Pro

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 24/06/2026

According to YouTube, my channel is 12 years old today! Yay for time moving at the literal speed of light.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 23/06/2026

Wild that my child brain didn't get the correlation to the cops being freakish pigs.

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