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Matt Lake

Matt Lake has been enthusiastically using and writing about technology since "portable computing" meant a 35-pound Compaq 8088 luggable and the most popular search engine was grep.

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Review: 3 personal HD video cameras offer high def at low cost

If you want to record HD video, and don't want to lug around a camcorder, one of these three small, inexpensive cameras can make it easy to be a video maven.

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Timeline: The evolution of online communities

Think Facebook is the ne plus ultra of online communities? Let's not forget about e-mail discussion lists, chat rooms, BBSs, Usenet groups, MUDs and all the other types of online communities that helped us get where we are today.

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CompuServe, Prodigy et al.: What Web 2.0 can learn from Online 1.0

GEnie, Delphi, AOL and other commercial networks once ruled the online roost. Where are they now, and what can their ghosts teach today's online communities?

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Changing domains? Check out these 3 cheap registrars

Change your domain -- or register a new one -- for less than $10 a year by using one of these three domain registrars.

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Image gallery: Check out these 3 cheap domain registrars

Change your domain -- or register a new one -- for less than $10 a year by using one of these three domain registrars.

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10 operating systems the world left behind

You're not really supposed to love an operating system. It's like your car's hydraulic system, your digestive system or the global financial system. It's supposed to do its job -- and not get in your way while you're doing...

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Timeline: 40 years of OS milestones

With the birth of Unix as a somewhat arbitrary starting point, here's a look at some of the biggest desktop OS moments of the past 40 years.

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Gone but not forgotten: 10 operating systems the world left behind

Like it or not, operating systems change and go away, leaving us with fading memories and pangs of nostalgia. From CP/M to OS/2, AmigaOS to NextStep, we honor 10 OSs that made a big splash but went the way of the dodo. Or did they?

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Image gallery: 10 'gone but not forgotten' OSs

Like it or not, operating systems change and go away, leaving us with fading memories and pangs of nostalgia. From CP/M to OS/2, AmigaOS to NextStep, we honor 10 OSs that made a big splash but went the way of the dodo. Or did they?

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