CompuServe Not just the first commercial online service but sadly, in an age of Comcast and Time Warner, one of the finest. AppleTalk Pure. Networking. Magic. Firewire The serial bus interface for geeks with tons of data and a penchant for daisychaining. Game Boy Playing Tetris on another device will never cut it. Pagers 1113 177155 969312 5003 Mr. Moviefone Without Russ Leatherman’s welcoming voice, we’re never fully sure of our movie choices. Star Trek: The Next Generation If spaceage onesies and badass timeloop episodes are wrong, then we don’t want to be right. Duke Nukem 3D It’s better to pretend like Forever never happened. Ask Jeeves He used to be the smartest guy on the Internet. Then Google murdered him. IBM Deep Blue All supercomputers should be required to beat Garry Kasparov at something. Laserdisc Twelve inches of compression-free videophile bliss. MS-DOS C:geekcred> md commandlineinterface. CRT monitor Big, heavy, clunky. It could also warm an entire room in winter. Ipod Click Wheel Clickity clickity click. Still the most satisfying one-handed method for navigating massive song lists. Motorola StarTAC Flipping open a clamshell to begin or end a call made conversations infinitely cooler. Sony Aibo Definitive proof that robots can be adorable. GeoCities Because a website can never have too many “under construction” GIFs. T-Mobile Sidekick That smooth pop-tilt hinge action. Also, came with an OS named Danger. Microsoft Zune There was once a music device that didn’t require iTunes. It was actually quite good. Neighborhood movie rental stores Late fees sucked. But recommendation algorithms still don’t hold a candle to Tim, the French New Wave expert. The Flip video camera Poster child of the goodenough revolution. Convergence is a cruel mistress. Dr. Sbaitso All PCs should come with a witty AI therapist. Homepage Art: DonThomaso84/Flickr
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