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    The coolest tech of yesteryear

    In the rapidly evolving world of technology even our most precious gadgets come and go at a blinding pace. From, Napster to Zip drives, here are our favorites from generations past.

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    The Iomega Zip Drive With many magnitudes more space than an ordinary floppy, Iomega revolutionized data transfer by offering 750MB on a single zip disk. Nowadays, with our smartphones and thumb drives, we've got gigabytes in our pocket.
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    Iomega
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    The Flip Mini HD My smartphone takes excellent HD video, thanks.
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    Flip Video
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    The Beeper Always sort of pointless, yet somehow, we couldn't live without them.
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    Motorola
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    The Original Apple PowerBook Unlike the MacBook Air, this one doesn't fit in an envelope.
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    Apple
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    Windows 95 This was the future. Now it's the past.
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    Microsoft
  • crt_monitors
    CRT Monitors Fat and clunky has been replaced by thin and sleek.
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    Viewsonic
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    Graphing Calculators With laptops, smartphones and tablets in the classrooms, graphing calculators like the TI-89 are ancient history.
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    Texas Instruments
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    Napster The one that started it all.
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    Time
  • motorola_flip_phone
    Flip Phones Or as some called them: "clam-shells."
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    Motorola
  • sony_mini_disc
    The MiniDisc Doesn't play tapes, CDs or mp3s.
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    Sony
  • att_answering_machine
    The Answering Machine Meet voicemail.
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    AT&T
  • palm_treo_phone
    The Palm Treo Smartphones before they were smart.
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    Palm
  • nokia_internet_tablet
    Nokia's Internet Tablet Before Steve Jobs made them cool.
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    Nokia
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    The coolest tech of yesteryear

    In the rapidly evolving world of technology even our most precious gadgets come and go at a blinding pace. From, Napster to Zip drives, here are our favorites from generations past.

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