Cameras

The Digital Cameras Of 2000 Look Awfully Good For Their Age

This Canon PowerShot G1, released in 2000, has held up well. Sure, 3.34 megapixels isn’t much, but spec for spec, this codger can almost hang with the kids.


Mobile

Microsoft’s Lost Decade In Mobile

Ten years ago, you could buy the HP Jornada 548 with a colour screen, which let you listen to MP3s, surf the web, check your email and keep a calendar. It had a touchscreen. It ran Windows. It was awesome.


January 1, 2010
Computing

Laptops In The Year 2000 Were The Smartphones Of Today

Now I want you to close your eyes and squint really hard. Because I’m going to tell you about a time that feels ancient, a time when Sony made some of the baddest laptops around.


December 31, 2009

MP3 Players In The Year 2000 We Loved But Weren’t So Good

This is the Creative Nomad Jukebox from the year 2000. It may have been shaped like a CD player to mentally ease technophobes, but it actually had a 6GB hard drive on board. And boy did we love it.