Akihabara, the electric town, is at the center of a long history that includes home appliances, radios, and pop cultural goods, in addition to computers. Each object left a mark in the history of the area, and of the communities that one would find there. In this panel, Andrea Mariucci starts from Akihabara to present aspects of computing culture around the 1980s. To do this, he uses magazines, works of fiction, and oral accounts gathered during research in an attempt to paint a picture of what it must have felt like to tinker around during that time