3+ hour, 54+ min ago  (471+ words) Requiem For Long Wave, As The BBC Goes Silent Hackaday Something happened this morning which will have been unnoticed by many, but which for a certain breed of radio enthusiast marks the end of an era. The BBC stopped broadcasting…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (37+ words) [Trwmato] wanted to spend more time listening to a normal radio to cut back on phone use. But the programming wasn't quite right so, of course, the solution was to spin up a custom radio station! The. .....

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (260+ words) Hackaday Especially in this era of the Internet, the role of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has become increasingly essential as more and more web content vanishes into the ether or is surreptitiously altered to hide salient details More recently…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (28+ words) We've talked before about number stations -- mysterious shortwave transmitters repeating numbers, presumably for clandestine purposes. But, of course, the mere fact that they are unusual makes them st. .....

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (187+ words) Hackaday There was a time when a CB radio was a simple affair: a small box with a channel selector, volume, and squelch controls No longer it seems, because they can now be multi-mode devices that equal the capabilities of…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (606+ words) With so many online messaging services to choose from it's almost as though the daddy of them all, email, has faded into the background as something you only use for more formal contacts. But it's sti. .....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (906+ words) When the World Wide Web surged into existence during the 1990s, we were introduced to the problem of how to actually find something in this ever-ballooning construction zone that easily outpaced even the fastest post-WW2 urban sprawl. Although domain names provided…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (498+ words) Hackaday Although 1999 might still feel like yesterday for some of us, in the world of technology the intervening years are practically an eternity New websites, applications and devices pop up all the time, only to die off just as fast…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (266+ words) Mixapps: The Mixtape Of The Internet Age Hackaday Mixtapes used to be a way that we cultivated a personal selection of music for our own enjoyment, or to give as gifts to those we wanted to impress with a personal…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (220+ words) Hackaday Mixtapes used to be a way that we cultivated a personal selection of music for our own enjoyment, or to give as gifts to those we wanted to impress with a personal touch These days, we'd typically try that…...