Gizmodo 79

Our Gizmodo '79 celebration may have ended last week, but there's room for a final post, written by famed retiree…

1979 was the beginning of Lego as we know it today, the year when they took over the world, the year of the Galaxy…

Writing about technology as it was thirty years ago, I realized that 1979 was perhaps the last year before a digital…

From 1979: A source "close to the matter" claims this document outlines a future Audio format that would utilize a…

Gizmodo '79 is a week-long celebration of gadgets and geekdom 30 years ago, as the analog age gave way to the…

Seymour Cray's big super computer was crazy. It's signals between components had to be timed by trimming long cables…

The network started to breathe in the 70's. Above, the first ethernet cable, found in PARC's labs by Boing Boing…

Many of our Gizmodo '79 posts have illustrated just how far we've come in the past three decades, but in one…

Even back then, there were computers for people who couldn't afford the more expensive stuff. Take this Tandy, which…

Gizmodo '79 is a week-long celebration of gadgets and geekdom 30 years ago, as the analog age gave way to the…

Lenses being equal, a large format 8x10 piece of film can capture the equivalent of 800 Megapixels. Just saying. But…

Q: What classic computer and Apple II competitor opened its steel case up like a car hood? And was named after a…

This is the Intel 8088. A beast with 29,000 transistors that could be clocked up 8MHz in its 1979 heyday, it was the…

You may think the weird Happy Meal bundling came during the '80s, but McDonalds was already busy making sure kids…

Gizmodo '79 is a week-long celebration of gadgets and geekdom 30 years ago, as the analog age gave way to the…

We pointed out why gadgets were more expensive 30 years ago, but it is also important to note that many of these…

Hartmut Esslinger's Frog Design made WEGA/Sony's electronics fetish items, and then designed the "Snow White"…

You think you enjoyed Blu-ray vs HD DVD? Memory Stick vs SD? Pshaw! You haven't seen a format war until you've…

Sinclair's little ultra-sharp black and white TV was meant to be a pocket set. But with a 4x6-inch footprint, it was…

The Speak and Spell, which was first shown at CES in 1978 and sold in 1979, was one of the first gadgets with a…