• What is a “Tech Potato”?

    Way back in 1992 I coined the term “Desk Potato” while designing a satellite receiver that displayed satellite TV in a window on a PC. After the Mosaic web browser was released in 1993, I started a site called  The Desk Potato home page talking about the shift to the desk from the couch.

    The eighties had the “Couch Potato” (solanum tuberosum video locus), then as we came into the last decade of twentieth century, modern computer technology created a new improved version… The “Desk Potato”! (solanum tuberosum computare locus).

    While those of us with our Palm … more…

  • Tech Potato is Returning…

    Thank-you for visiting The Tech Potato.

    As of the end of June, 2019 the primary server has fallen and can’t get up. I am working on rebuilding the site, newer and better! Please come back soon!

    Thank heavens for the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, which lets us see the original content from the Tech Potato site. Although the site has only had infrequent posts, the original content can be recovered and updated.… more…