Arol is a tech journalist who currently works as a contributor at How-To Geek since 2022. He first began writing online for the short-lived portal of Spanish-language gaming forum Emudesc in 2013.

Jordan is an open source software enthusiast and full-time Linux user. He explores the world of *nix, FOSS, and other technologies at How-To Geek. Jordan's technology experience goes all the way back.

Everything fails eventually, but moving parts fail fastest of all– and optical drives seemingly more than others, at least in our experience. Even when they work, vintage drives often have trouble ...

In the innocent days of the early 90s the future of personal computing still seemed to be wide open, with pundits making various statements regarding tis potential trajectories. To many, the internet ...

At the time, it was the CD-ROM that had captured the imagination of consumers and the entire publishing industry. The high-capacity optical discs enabled mass distribution of multimedia for the first ...

Keep the news in the Wayback Machine. Sign Fight for the Future's letter. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. A line drawing of the Internet Archive ...