The coolest tech of yesteryear
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}<b>The Iomega Zip Drive</b> 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. (Iomega)
<b>The Flip Mini HD</b> My smartphone takes excellent HD video, thanks. (Flip Video)
<b>The Beeper</b> Always sort of pointless, yet somehow, we couldn't live without them. (Motorola)
<b>The Original Apple PowerBook</b> Unlike the MacBook Air, this one doesn't fit in an envelope. (Apple)
<b>Windows 95</b> This was the future. Now it's the past. (Microsoft)
<b>CRT Monitors</b> Fat and clunky has been replaced by thin and sleek. (Viewsonic)
<b>Graphing Calculators</b> With laptops, smartphones and tablets in the classrooms, graphing calculators like the TI-89 are ancient history. (Texas Instruments)
<b>Napster</b> The one that started it all. (Time)
<b>Flip Phones</b> Or as some called them: "clam-shells." (Motorola)
<b>The MiniDisc</b> Doesn't play tapes, CDs or mp3s. (Sony)
<b>The Answering Machine</b> Meet voicemail. (AT&T)
<b>The Palm Treo</b> Smartphones before they were smart. (Palm)
<b>Nokia's Internet Tablet</b> Before Steve Jobs made them cool. (Nokia)