Category: Retro General Blog

General blog posts. Morphie will send you back in time with classic chat rooms, chat-based games and retro blogs.

Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica is an American military science fiction television series, and part of the Battlestar Galactica franchise. The show was created by Glen A. Larson, and produced by Universal Television. It aired on ABC from September 17, 1978, to April 29, 1980. The series began as a three-hour miniseries (later expanded to four hours) which
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The first computer

In 1876, Charles Babbage designed a machine called the Analytical Engine, which could be programmed to perform simple calculations. However, the machine was never completed. In 1937, John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry developed the first electronic computer, called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer. However, this machine was not actually built until 1973. In 1941, Konrad Zuse designed
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AVpod

Back in the late 2000s I owned voice and video chat software called AVpod from the developer Fpath. The client was very similar to Mplayer and GameSpy Arcade. AVpod ran from 2006 until 2010. The client had several games that you could play in the client. Some of these games were multi-player. Each game room
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Remembering Mplayer.com

From time to time I will randomly think about the days of Mplayer. Mplayer was an interactive voice and video chat client with loads of gaming. The platform was very popular at the end of the 90s and early 2000s. Yes, I was on Mplayer just about every day during my highschool years. The chat
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