31 Nostalgic Technology Snapshots We All Have Stored in the Back of Our Collective Hard Drive

John Summers • Contributor

Sep 19, 2024 11:00 PM EDT

Call me crazy but it feels like the early 2000s just happened Like, not too long ago. I feel like there is absolutely no way we are already 24 years into the new millennium. I distinctly remember plugging the cord out of my landline and connecting it to the back of my computer every time I wanted to log on to the internet. I remember having a giant CD case in my car, filled with dozens of CD that I burned myself.

And our cellphones used to have buttons! remember that? they all had lots and lots of buttons, until the iPhone came along and made buttons a thing of the past. By the way, do any of you know what happened to that weird sound our computer speakers used to make just before we got a call on our cellphone? I mean, it used to happen all the time and I haven't heard that specific noise in… hmmm, yeah… it's been 20 years.

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Working from home, 90s style

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Nokia

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StarCraft (1998)

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Hewlett Packard HP 200LX Pocket Computer (1994)

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Winamp Skin: fowl 1 0 industrial by vulf

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Sharp GF-555 boombox (1981)

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Duke Nukem 3D

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Toshiba (1983)

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Outlook Express

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Motorola Accompli 009 (2001, $550)

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Packard Bell Navigator 1.1

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The Curse of Monkey Island (1997)

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Who was your favorite Office assistant?

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Panasonic Face-to-Face Telephone concept (1996)

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Microsoft Bookshelf '95

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The Apple I (1976)

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Creative Labs 3D Blaster Voodoo2 (1998)

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Encarta 99

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Texas Instruments (1990)

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Psion Series 5 (1997)

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PowerPoint 97

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Quake III Arena

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The first ThinkPad (1992)

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SETI at Home felt like the future

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Presenting the new iMac

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LaserTour, $20,000 (1982)

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Napster

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The Nokia 9300 (2005)

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Ars Technica (2000)

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Windows Me

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The Sharp JC-TV10 TV & Stereo Cassette Player (1986)

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