Happy New Year and hope your first week of 2026 has been a good one so far.

Now, this week as we take a bit of an extended break for Christmas,

we're going to treat everyone to a special episode of our patrons-only podcast, The Retro Hour After Hours.

Now, this episode you're going to hear today is from January last year,

when Ravi Joe and I went through our personal top five tech and gaming innovations from the last 30 years.

So we talk about the things that we think has made the biggest difference from the years 1994 to 2024.

So you can think of this as a bit of a late Christmas present from us. And if you like what you're

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