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A visual history of your favorite technology. We showcase old versions of stuff you love.

Joined March 2014
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25 years ago today in 1995 Amazon.com opened for business as an online bookstore. It's now worth $1.5+ trillion, there are only 12 countries in the world that are richer than Amazon! Here is a visual history of their brand - versionmuseum.com/history-of…
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A growing number of PCMCIA datacards in the #MobilePhoneMuseum. Such an important product category in the cellular mobile data journey.
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75 years since Vannevar Bush's seminal essay As We May Think. In it, he describes the Memex, a device that “operates by association. With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next … in accordance with some intricate web of trails...” He had described the WWW.
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Design history of Microsoft Excel: versionmuseum.com/history-of… I love how Clippy looks like he’s in the midst of committing accounting fraud.
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The collections of Netscape micro banners and icons in the 1990s. #Netscape #90s
In December 2002 Google launched shopping engine Froogle. It was a service that made it easy to find information about products for sale online. In 2007 Froogle was rebranded as Google Product Search. web.archive.org/web/20030214… #Froogle #Google #InternetHistory
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Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards is a graphic adventure game originally released in 1987 for PC DOS and Apple II. Later it was ported to other platforms such as the Amiga, Atari ST, Apple IIGS, Apple Macintosh, and the Tandy Color Computer 3. #Amiga #nostalgia
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Happy 30th birthday, @Photoshop! ✨🎈🍰 🎁 Take a walk down memory lane and enjoy this timeline of Photoshop courtesy of @VersionMuseum: bit.ly/32b9iiy #Wacom #Photoshop #happybirthday
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On this day in 1968: first demo of the computer mouse
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On this day in 1990: World Wide Web first proposed
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UCLA celebrates the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Internet today at Royce Hall! Join UCLA SEAS distinguished professor, Leonard Kleinrock, 50 years to the day when his team sent the first message over the Arpanet. samueli.ucla.edu/internet50 #Internet50
Indeed. In the hazy days of 2004 I remember "friending" people, "poking" people, and eventually, status updates that had to begin with "Kira is..." Here are some pictures at the Version Museum versionmuseum.com/history-of…
So...I just saw about the part of Mark Zuckerberg’s speech last week where he says he founded Facebook because the Iraq War told him more people needed their perspectives heard. And as a 2005-present Facebook user, I have never felt so gaslit in my life. That’s not what it was.
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On this day in 2008: first Android phone goes on sale
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Hello beautiful... 🤓❤️
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Internet Explorer 3.0 animated banner in 1996. Do you want to see more 90s banners? Visit our exhibition Web Banners in the 90s. webdesignmuseum.org/exhibiti… #IE #InternetExplorer #90s #Banner #InternetHistory
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In this Weekly Squeak: How can we ensure our digital legacy isn’t lost to the future? And how Mac OS 9 is a fantastic time capsule into the early stages of consumer internet use – content via @ozm @versionmuseum & others getrevue.co/profile/gregario…
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Take a walk through the visual history of tech. The @VersionMuseum focuses on the design changes of historic versions of #technology, rather than just the written history behind it. sylvain.co/44j
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Um wow ok. There was a lot of stuff in the university storage room. I need some time to uhhhh digest this.
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#OnThisDay in 1954 the first successful FORTRAN program ran. Did you know FORTRAN was short for Formula Translator? computinghistory.org.uk/cgi-…
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