GoKawiilRetro-tech archive revisits 1984–2004 magazine predictions about home computing
A compiled retrospective pulls old reviews and ads from Creative Computing, Macworld and COMPUTE! spanning 1984 to 2004, covering products like CyberLYNX's Smarthome I home automation controller, CompuServe's early online chat, Filevision's database-drawing software, Positronic Bridge's bridge-playing AI, and Mind Prober's personality software alongside an early eye-switch assistive device. Each entry pairs the original marketing promise with contemporaneous reviewer impressions of how well the product actually performed.