The picture on the Wikipedia article for static cling, taken in 2006

this is art

2008 Gmail promotional soap

2011

Winamp Skin: wpx 278 icircuit

On this day in 1988, Microsoft released Windows 2.1.

Setting up Windows 98

there was something comforting about seeing a messy desktop full of icons back then.

Pocket Watch by Nokia (2002)

YouTube - PlayStation's Channel in 2011

This is one of the most savage Tay responses btw.

how cool it made you feel to own this phone

In 2016, Microsoft released an AI chatbot called Tay. It was supposed to learn from people on Twitter. The internet turned it into a disaster so quickly that Microsoft had to take it offline and apologise.

smart kids remember this instantly

There’s something cute about tech from the 90s

2009

Ask Jeeves officially just shut down forever. The end of an era

90s computer art

Sharp PC-E500, pocket Computer (1989)

"what do you want for your birthday?"

Pictures you can hear

This Windows 98 aesthetic is undefeated

Michael Jackson in Japan (1987)

the ultimate early 2000s irony putting the most indestructible phone ever made (the Nokia 3310) inside a protective leather case

Techno color

Who remembers Lime Wire?

this was someone’s life in 2010

This device could predict incoming phone calls (2000s)

90s pager codes

Text messages from the 2008 election involving President Obama have been rediscovered on a Motorola device.

2007

Windows Vista User Icons (2007)

Early 2000s setups

How we browsed the internet in 2000

Times Square Windows Error in 2001

What Messenger app was your go to back in the day?

Napster was the beginning of the downfall of CDs

Windows Phone ads taking over the streets in 2012