TECH.EXE is Glitchback’s deep-dive hub into the machines and software that shaped entire generations. From forgotten consoles and early PCs to legendary operating systems and discontinued browsers, this section explores the hardware and digital ecosystems that defined the evolution of modern tech.
There was a time when software didn’t try to be beautiful. It didn’t try to be calm. It didn’t try to convert you. And somehow, it felt more alive. Before design systems, before UX best practices, before every app started looking like…
Loading… (Please wait 3.5 minutes while we buffer on dial-up.) Welcome to glitchback.com a Retro Tech Manifesto! Why look back? In a world obsessed with 4K resolution, AI generation, and sterile minimalist design, we crave the noise. That glorious static, the hiss…
The Nokia 3310 isn’t just a phone, it’s the Chuck Norris of mobile devices. Picture this: a gadget that laughs in the face of a nuclear winter, surviving alongside cockroaches while everything else crumbles. Released in 2000, this “indestructible Nokia…
Because every empire falls—and some fall hilariously slowly. The War of the Worlds: How Netscape Lost the Fight Boot up the late ’90s and you’ll land in the middle of the original Browser Wars. Netscape Navigator was the pioneer—the cool…
The Nintendo 64 wasn’t just a console—it was a rupture in the timeline. A moment where gaming’s future split into two realities: Sony’s cinematic CD-ROM revolution and Nintendo’s stubborn, brilliant, polygon-warping vision of gameplay-first innovation. What emerged was a machine…
If you were a teenager in the late 90s, you didn’t want an iPhone. You wanted a Sony. Before the white earbuds of Apple conquered the planet, there was only one king of portable audio. Sony. They gave us the…
