Remember the days when you used flaunt your latest 'brick size' mobile phone? Or the times when you used to designate an entire weekend for organising your music cassettes?

The good old days when you used to wait in never ending queues in front of a music store to get hold of a latest CD from your favourite band.

Now you just need to hit the 'buy Now' button on your screen and you're done.

Thankfully, there are people who still appreciate inventions from the yesteryears; James Grahame is one of them, who launched retrothings.com in 2006. He is a 'vintage technology junkie' who loves to track down fascinating stuff from the past.

Retrothings.com is full of classic and vintage gizmos, but the site does not focus on marketing or selling these products. They do have some vintage gadgets that are available in the market, the site simply provides leads or links for buying them.

So what exactly do they do? And how do they make money from it?

They have an editorial team that focuses on writing interesting articles and they very graciously invite guest authors or story ideas. They have a history of writing 3 million pages of content in 2008, and they have many regular followers who share their love for vinatge technology.

The site became pretty popular among vintage technology enthusiasts and eventually became a great place for offering Ad space for sellers who actually sell products that they write about. Retrothing.com started selling space on their site for running graphic banners or simple text ads.

What I love the most about them is that the site is incredibly simple to navigate, they have about 27 sections and each section has countless articles that are written very articulately. They give in-depth information about each vintage gizmo, right from its birth to its functions, components and combine it with great opinions. They have maintained the quality of their content which not only helps in retaining regular readers but also attracting new ones.

I think James has found a great way to share his profound passion for vintage technology and has directed this passion towards his profession. Very few people are able to gather enough courage to transform their hobby or interests into their jobs... Are you one of them?