A Look at How Samsung Surpassed Nokia and Motorola With the Launch of UpRoar, the World’s First Phone With an MP3 Player
SmartphonesThe phone featured 32 MB of internal memory, allowing users to store around 10 songs.
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I’ve Spent Several Hours in the Bizarre and Exciting World of Retro Soviet Video Games. I’m Still Recovering
Video GamesThis list naturally includes Tetris but also a selection of abstract puzzles and underground propaganda.
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The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet Is No Longer a Mystery. This Is the Group That Recorded It
MusicInternet users have solved the decades-old mystery of a song recorded on cassette in the mid-1980s.
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It’s 2024 and San Francisco’s Muni Metro Is Still Running on 5.25-inch Floppy Disks
MobilitySan Francisco Municipal Railway still relies on 1980s-era floppy disks every morning, but that’s about to change.
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26 Years Ago, Nintendo Released a Game Boy Cartridge With a Camera. Today, Someone Has Managed to Turn It Into a Webcam
Video GamesA “glorious 16 kilopixels.” Sick.
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35 Years Ago, Sony Introduced the World’s Largest CRT Television: A 43-inch, 400-Pound TV That Cost a Fortune
TVsIt was so large that it couldn’t fit through a standard door frame.
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An Apple Enthusiast Used a $7 Raspberry Pi for a Fantastic Project: Creating an Original Macintosh
ComputersEmulating some of the original Macintosh experience is still possible in 2024.
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