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The Very First Wikipedia Entries For 19 Tech Icons
Single-serving tumblrs tend to fizzle out and die before their first day is even up, but First Drafts of History might actually have some staying power. Because when it comes to hunting down the more delightfully bizarre of Wikipedia’s first entries, there’s enough material to last a lifetime.
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A Visual History Of The iPod Click Wheel
The click wheel is dead! Long live the touchscreen. While Apple has moved on to brighter and screenier devices, the click wheel remains one of our favourite input methods of all time. Call us sentimental, but let’s take a walk down memory lane.
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Old Daily Show Clips Mocking Camera Phones And Texting Are Hilarious
When it comes to consistently incisive commentary, The Daily Show is second to none, especially where poking fun at tech is concerned. But go back about 10 years, and — er, it was still incredibly good at mocking new tech. And for many of the same reasons we do today.
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11 Machines That Exercise For You, From The Victorian Era To Today
Time was, humans didn’t have to worry much about getting exercise. When we had to kill, gather, grow, or herd our own food, working out happened naturally. Of course, as soon as we figured out how to avoid those laborious chores, we did. Not long after, we had to come up with new ways of…