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https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x0365e7a9

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When I was at the university, this was the dream station. Peak performance.

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@polluterofminds

Getting one of these felt like living in the future in the early 2000s.

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@polluterofminds

Inagine renting your phone… Wait a minute, that’s exactly what many people do with cell phones every year. https://adretro.com/ads/1981-itt-itt-ultra-80-telephone-ad-an-open-and-shut-case-for-owning-your-own-phone-749

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Sam Altman and Jony Ive teaming up in the most cinematic announcement of an announcement I’ve ever watched. With Harry Gregson-Williams’ “Making Water” theme from “The Martian” playing in the background to top it off 👌 https://youtu.be/W09bIpc_3ms

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Few people actually heard the background music from windows xp installation because it was set to play before the audio drivers were configured. Someone once said: “peak windows is setting the smooth club hit of the millenium to play BEFORE THEY SET THE AUDIO DRIVERS TO CONFIGURE in their own installation” https://youtu.be/SKricIeeru0?feature=shared

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PlantSudio, 1997. Garden simulation with variant evolution programming

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The Keep BBS - incept date: 1983. One of the oldest BBS in America. Hosted in Beaverton, Oregon, it's still in operation and continues to have an ASCII interface.

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C.Y. Lee | cxy.eth

Buick Dimension promotional 5.25” floppy disc for the Apple //e circa 1986

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https://www.goto10retro.com/p/altair-at-50-remembering-the-first

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employee #8 at Sun https://akapugs.blog/2022/05/03/674/

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@drewcoffman.eth

the year is 2006. you just beamed a Limp Bizkit song to your friend’s Zune. the world feels infinite.

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The first GIF was created in 1987 by Steve Wilhite and his team of developers at Compuserve. His "flying airplane" paved the way for the GIF phenomenon. https://media.tenor.com/HpXkSkd1NJ0AAAAC/primer-gif-compuserver

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Some kind of prototype of the Apple Newton in various colors (1995). As far as I know, the Newton was later only produced in black.

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@polluterofminds

Look what they took from us. https://technologizer.com/home/2025/04/22/pc-connection-ads-raccoons/

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