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more about #retromodo infmom: My husband worked for a radio station in about the same time frame and he and his colleagues were given watches from.. Seiko? Casio? Can't remember... more » Oracio Alvarado: I actually have a box of these at home. During that time I worked for a retailer who sold the Modo. When they went belly up they just gave us the lef... more » Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Form 2 EVOLVE! ...or would that be the opposite? more » Die Fledermaus: The JVC tm was a great studio monitor also. more » nutbastard: im seeing people in the comments giving codes that have to be turned upside down - that's not the way we did it, and would require that you planned ou... more » nutbastard: 4017 6412157 017 8 57162! more » nachobel: I can't help but thinking that looks a little bit like...a Georgia O'keefe painting... more » Bloof, even better with MAGNETS!!!: Looks like a female sex organ with a palm pilot jammed in it. more » Cacy Forgenie: I remember this! My friend Victor Chu was the inventor, and his girl was/is a friend of mine. She got me a writing gig for the device. I'd go around t... more » Odin: Ah dial-up nostalgia. Time for an oft retold anecdote of how I remember sneaking downstairs to reconnect the dial-up after my parents switched it off ... more » Sir Winston Thriller: It looks like one of my glucometers. more » Michael Scrip: I've read this article twice... and I still don't know what the Modo does... more » Lunargent: Orson Welles will always remind me of Animaniacs and bring a smile to my face. more » omfgh4x: They gave dude a beeper. more » Benguin: Something about that last line strikes me as funny. "Anything more would be too much." To me it reads like: "Don't get greedy and stop hogging our n... more » heisthejordan: oh dial-up and those incredibly annoying noises that went along with you. all that time, effort and damage to the ears just to talk with some ladies o... more » mykrowsy001: she kinda reminds me of michael jackson more » b5bartender: The hardest part, Kids, was having to set the friggin' clock on the thing when it had only one button. more » Bertone77: I was looking through the comments and I'm surprised nobody used the: 17-31707-1 Which me and my girlfriend used to use all the time in highschool (... more » poisonfist is nipponese: Japanese had quite a system of communicating with numeric codes. Japan has traditionally had numeric ways of spelling out phrases kind of like playin... more » -
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Modo Walked the Fine Line Between "Ahead of Its Time" and "Just Stupid"
The Modo, a wireless handheld introduced in 2000, couldn't give directions. It refused to make calls and had no interest in displaying fresh emails. It was too busy being cool. Alas, I never got to touch it. More » -
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That Old Dial-Up Dilemma: How To Get Incoming Calls While Surfing the Superhighway
Is the 2000 version of yourself worried about missing incoming calls while online? Just connect your modem to your phone then call Sprint and go online and write a check to pay the bill and... you'll have Internet call waiting! More » -
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Beeper Code: The Caveman Days of Text Messaging
In 1999, 45 million Americans had pagers. They were an equal-opportunity technology, owned by drug dealers, whores, doctors and CEOs—and new college students whose parents couldn't drop the leash. At least there was the code. More » -
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The Smartest Mouse Pad That Ever Lived (and Then Died)
Are you overwhelmed by the Internet? I sure was in 2000. Hell, I still am. But I think I'd be able to navigate everything in a more manageable way if only I had the right... mouse pad. More » -
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Orson Welles and His Brief Passionate Betacam Love Affair
In January 1985, the phone rang. The caller announced that he was Orson Welles and that he wanted to have lunch with me. Thus began one of the most extraordinary and bittersweet adventures of my life. -
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Aibo and the Days of Hot Dog-on-Robot Action
In 1999, the world met Aibo, the $2,500 robotic dog from Sony. The following year brought quite the litter of less expensive mechanized pups. Real dogs, however, had mixed feelings about their cyber counterparts. More » -
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12 Vintage Portable Televisions Make You Glad To Be Alive in 2009
I remember my best friend had a portable black and white TV in his room back in the day—kind of similar to the Magnavox BD 3902 pictured in OObject's list. More » -
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The Wassup Commercial: Back In the Days When Men Communicated
The Wassup Boys were a glimpse at the Early 2000 Male's civilized relationship with technology. No, really. More » -
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My Tech Buyer's Guide from 2000 Is Pretty Hilarious
Nine years ago, as a young tech reporter at Time Magazine, I co-wrote a buyer's guide with the latest and greatest gear known to man. Today, it sounds ridiculous. More » -
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100 Years of Failure: 10 Technologies We Were Promised But Never Got
In Your Flying Car Awaits, author Paul Milo discusses "robot butlers, lunar vacations and other dead-wrong predictions of the 20th Century." Here are 10 calamitous tech failures. Even the ones that did make it aren't anything like their original visions. More » -
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The Cigarette Lighter Watch: Because Everyone Smoked in the '80s
A lot has changed with regard to our views about smoking since this lighter watch combo was created in the '80s. In its day, it would have been the ultimate smoke break gadget. Check the time...light up a cigarette... More » -
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Retromodo Made New: The Cobra-Matic Casemod
It's ability to play tunes long gone, this 1951 Zenith H664 Cobra-matic phonograph was born anew thanks to modder Alvin "Mach" Barber. More » -
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'A 10-Year-Old Can Do It Blindfolded!'
There is so much odd and potentially wrong in regards to this vintage dishwasher ad, I don't even know where to begin. [Flickr via copyranter] -
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ASCII Art, Circa 1934
And so a timeless truth is revealed: If you put enough nerds in front of a set of lettered keys, one of them will produce awkward art, eventually. More » -
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Top 5 Assclowns Laughing at the iPhone Back in 2007
I wonder how many times Steve Ballmer laughed about the iPhone after pooping all over it in this 2007 interview. My guess: Not many. Don't worry Steve, here's the rest of the top 5 assclowns who dug their own grave: More » -
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Every Single One of Cormac McCarthy's Works Was Typed on This
Cormac McCarthy has spent many years bent over this typewriter banging out books and screenplays, including All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road. Now, after many decades, he's giving up his trusty old gadget. More » -
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Vintage Cheese: Nothing Says Holidays Like a Family High on Technology
Hands up if you're taking a laptop home this weekend to escape family craziness by jumping online for a while. Me too. But if you believe these bizarre 1980s ads, computers were meant to foster an age of dazed family-togetherness. More » -
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Pinball Machines Were Sneakier Than You Think
There's a great read over at Cheap Talk about how digital pinball machines changed the industry, back when there still was an industry. They were big tables where you flick a ball around, but they were smarter than you think. More » -
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The Polaroid Ring
Diamond rings, Lego rings, or Polaroid ring? As long as it's not the horrible teeth rings, you will be ok. [Etsy via Obsolete] -
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Steve Jobs: "If You Have any Further Questions, Please Call or Write"
Once upon a time, Apple computers didn't come with keyboards or monitors or even cases. But they often came with a personal letter from Steve Jobs, like the one included with this Apple I, now available starting at $50,000. More »
