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Australia's First Mobile Video Call: April 15, 2003 Constantly being bombarded with emails urging you to join your friends’ and co-workers’ professional networks on LinkedIn is incredibly annoying these days. But the folks at Squirrel-Monkey show us that it could have been a lot worse had LinkedIn existed in the ’80s.
If you’re of a certain age (I’m being polite here, but then I’m that old too, so I can), you might remember the Microbee computer in your educational institution of choice. The brand is making a comeback, but this isn’t a case of selling new tech with an old badge on it. Microbee’s going to sell actual Microbees, albeit with a few modern twists.
It’s widely assumed that the ideas for both Apple’s and Microsoft’s GUI-based operating systems were heavily lifted from research done at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, or PARC. And this clip from 1972, showing off Xerox’s Alto desktop computer, all but proves the company was years ahead of its time.
Does the iPhone 4′s Retina display make you nostalgic for the days when VGA was the equivalent of cutting-edge graphics? Well, Big Big Pixels has the cure with its adorably pixelated 8-Bit bumper case that will transport your iPhone back to the Atari days.
No matter how transformative the technology, sooner or later its time will pass. Change is good! It means we’ve moved on to something bigger and better. But our friends at Laptop Magazine found 10 technologies way past their expiration dates that you can still purchase today.
What if the YouTube we know and love had been invented in the 1990s? The video is the latest in a series of similarly themed visions of retro-trech showcasing Twitter, Facebook and Google, among others.
These days you usually only find nixie tubes used in retro-styled time pieces. But Etsy seller electronico has broken that mould with a stylish necklace that repurposes an old working Russian nixie tube into a fashionable accessory.
Even though it combined all the benefits of riding a scooter with the ability to easily transition between land and water, for some reason the Hover Scooter never went mainstream. Maybe it had something to do with that giant unprotected ducted fan up front?
The Apple II was first demonstrated at a computer faire thirty five years ago today — and it couldn’t be a more different machine or philosophy than Apple’s current walled garden approach.
It’s dim, it gets hot, and it will probably chew through batteries faster than an electric car. But damn this vintage Swiss Army torch dating back to the ’50s and ’60s is a lovely piece of hardware.
