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Throwback Thursday: Check out this stone-age tech

It’s Throwback Tech Thursday! Check out this collection of stone-age tech that will bring back those nostalgic memories. You can thank me later.

beeper

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In tech, we’re always looking forward, never looking back.

Earlier today, Lauren Goode of Recode tweeted a pic of her old Sony Discman CD player, soon to be followed by a flood of #TBT (Throwback Thursday) pics.

Here’s a roundup of some the best #TBT tech pics.

Sony Discman portable CD player (don’t take it running, it skips)

sony discman

The Talkboy, whatever that is…

talkboy

Nano Puppy – not to be confused with Tamagotchi…

nano puppy

The original Nintendo, with the approximate footprint of a small server…

NES

An ancient Apple computer (take your guess…)

old apple computer

A Zune, still in its box…

zune

Viewmaster, because why not take a magical journey back to 1985…

viewmaster

A pager – to alert you to call the person who paged you…

beeper

Zip disks (if you have no idea what these are, just nod and smile)

zip discs

A 1990s alarm clock, or how you know you’re in a really shitty motel…

alarm clocl

iMacs and the dogs who (still) love them

imacs

The Casio calculator watch, revered among nerds everywhere

casio calculator watch

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  1. Don

    June 26, 2014 at 8:11 pm

    I thought the Sony Discman was the greatest thing ever. One day just as I was actually gonna purchase one, it hit me like a pie in the face of how outdated the the technology became….practically overnight it seemed. I’m just slow on the uptake.

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