#retrofuture — Public Fediverse posts

My Only Friend is a Robot Named Beans

I loved this short sci-fi. It was written by Anika Kan Grevstad and features fantastic visuals along with a compelling story, with an actual character arc, and a well-deserved ending. I worried the story might go to some dark places, but it did not, and the story was the better for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FyCUeI646o

Pico-8 palette pixelart movie posters. (Say that a few times fast)

#pixelart #mastoart #fridayvibes #retrofuture #respriteapp #ipadart

🌡️☀️Solarpunk : le futur a enfin retrouvé le soleil
➡️ https://french-steampunk.fr/2026/06/22/solarpunk-origines-auteurs-esthetique/

#solarpunk #steampunk #retrofuture #chaleur #energiesolaire

Commodore Callback is the devolution your brainrot needs.

> I'm stoked for this.

#EthicalTech #News #RetroFuture #SailfishOS #Linux #LinuxSmartphone #RetroRecipes #Commodore #BryantReview

https://gardinerbryant.com/commodore-callback-is-the-devolution-your-brainrot-needs/?utm_campaign=widget&utm_source=mastodon

A letter from a terraformed #Venus.

#retroFuture vibes.

#typewriter #RoyalSignet #sciFi #scienceFiction #typedPage

1967. GE built a powered exoskeleton. 🦾💪

Hardiman. Hydraulic. Amplified strength 25x. Could lift a car (or close to it).

The catch? It weighed 680kg (1,500 lbs). The full version would have topped 1,000kg. Too heavy. Too ahead of its time.

Never deployed. But it proved the core tech: hydraulics, force feedback.

The Iron Man prototype from the analog era.

#GEHardiman #Exoskeleton #1967Tech #HydraulicPower #GE #MilitaryTech #RetroFuture

We're small, but mighty! I've been working on this PETSCII BBS for the Commodore 64 while waiting for my C64Us to come in. Have met some really cool and friendly folks so far. Actively developing too. Added a Gemini protocol browser (1st iteration preview) and a fun little C64 trivia game. More to come! Join us w/ your PETSCII terminal client of choice:

c64u.club (port 6400)

#c64 #commodore #c64u #c64ultimate #retrofuture #bbs #retro #oldschool #futurepast

🚙⚡🇩🇪 Trabant – The ultimate glow-up. From East Germany’s simplest car to the perfect ultra-affordable electric city car. Minimalist, lightweight, iconic — and suddenly very relevant again.

What are your choices?

🔚
#Trabant #CityEV #UrbanCars #AffordableTransport #RetroFuture #EastGermany

Only one new video game this week -
Rayman Raving Rabbids for the Nintendo Wii. One new TTRPG/LARP game Uber RBG Steampunk, and two new DVDs The Thirteenth Floor and Beetlejuice.
See alt text for more.... 🙂

#Nintendo #WII #NintendoWii #TTRPG #RPG #LARP #Steampunk #DVD #Movies #TheMatrix
#UberGoober #RetroFuturistic #RetroFuture

Personal Jesus (Najo Personal Remix) is on PERSONAL JESUS EP LYS 102
#NewWave #PostPunk #SynthPop #ColdWave #DarkWave #MinimalWave #80sMusic #RetroVibes #VintageSound #ElectronicMusic #IndieSynth #SynthCulture #AnalogSynth #WaveMusic #UndergroundScene #80sAesthetic #RetroFuture #NoirPop #ArtPop #AvantPop #Alternative80s #NewRomantic #PostPunkRevival #ElectroMinimal #RetroStyle #MusicHistory #SoundDesign #ExperimentalMusic

Some pretty neat stuff at the RetroFuture exposition 😄

#DeLorean #deloreandmc12 #BackToTheFuture #RetroFuture #Evoluon #NextNature #museum #eindhoven #moviecars #fluxcapacitor #oldschool

My favourite building in the Netherlands 🛸

#Evoluon #RetroFuture #Eindhoven #retrofuturism #ufo #flyingsaucer #space #architecture #oldschoolcool #oldschool #WondereWereld

🚗✨ Congrats, humanity! A 25-year-old electric doorstop is coming back to life so we can all pretend it's 1997 again. Apparently, the future of #transportation is reliving the past. 🔋⌛
https://electrek.co/2025/11/19/gm-ev1-saved-from-crusher-going-driveable-again/ #electricvehicles #nostalgia #innovation #retrofuture #HackerNews #ngated

Behind The Wheel (Under The Wheel Edit) is on BEHIND THE WHEEL EP LYS 109
#NewWave #PostPunk #SynthPop #ColdWave #DarkWave #MinimalWave #80sMusic #RetroVibes #VintageSound #ElectronicMusic #IndieSynth #SynthCulture #AnalogSynth #WaveMusic #UndergroundScene #80sAesthetic #RetroFuture #NoirPop #ArtPop #AvantPop #Alternative80s #NewRomantic #PostPunkRevival #ElectroMinimal #RetroStyle #MusicHistory #SoundDesign #ExperimentalMusic

On The Ethics of Digital Memory.

Well, you know what they say about they who control the past.

#retrocomputing #retrofuture #retrofuturism

While I appreciate the craft and the delight of reviving apps, games, and platforms past to make them survive standing on top of new technology, I don't believe that helping grow the codebase available to web browsers (increasingly meaning: Google Chrome) is in our best interest.

Retrofitting the web, modern applications, and knowledge to the old and retrofuture platforms is the more interesting, less tainted, alternative, and potentially beneficial direction.

One approach points in the direction of giving powerful platforms more power. The other, alternative approach gives powerful platforms less power, and it gives "lesser" platforms more of it. And in the process, with a little work and a little hope, maybe fewer of the things we got wrong.

In my opinion.

#retrofuture #retrocomputing

Consider that just like many Speccy alike are out there still working with minimal repairs after 43 years (38-43 years varying depending on the model), one of Superfo's (Harlequin and others) that you buy today based on discrete components could comparably last until around the year 2065.

#ZXSpectrum #Spectrum #Speccy #Harlequin #retrocomputing #retrofuture

Heatwave Daydream – The Glitter Girls Live 3001
#BogusCollective #Experimental #futurefunk #futurefunk #liveconcert #nudisco #postinternet #retrofuture #vaporboogie #vaporfunk #vaporwave #Savusavu
CC BY (#CreativeCommons Attribution) #ccmusic
https://boguscollective.bandcamp.com/album/the-glitter-girls-live-3001