A nostalgic dive into the Virtual OS Museum, where DOS prompts still blink, GEM still feels futuristic, Linux still smells faintly of 1997, and every boot menu is a trapdoor into another strange, brilliant future we almost got.
2026
06
Apr
The Cryptographic Zombie: How Keybase Went from Privacy Darling to Zoom’s Cleanup Crew
Once the ultimate geek flex for cypherpunks, Keybase promised to make PGP cryptography accessible to mere mortals. Today, it hovers in the digital ether as a “zombie” app. Here is the story of how a revolutionary open-source identity platform was cannibalized to become Zoom’s corporate cleanup crew.
