The Digital Cameras of 2000 Look Awfully Good For Their Age
This Canon PowerShot G1, released in 2000 and listed at Best Buy for $800 in 2001, has held up well. Sure, 3.34…
Microsoft's Lost Decade in Mobile
10 years ago, you could buy the HP Jornada 548 with a color screen, which let you listen to MP3s, surf the web, check…
Shine On, You Crazy Gadgets
I spent this decade hunting for the perfect gadget. I never thought I would end up with tech as good as this. But it's…
Laptops in the Year 2000 Were the Smartphones of Today
Now I want you to close your eyes and squint really hard. Because I'm going to tell you about a time that feels…
The Decade in Tech Stocks: Hope You Had GOOG and AAPL
Turns out it was a tough decade for tech companies. First the bubble they helped create burst and took the rest of the…
The Worst Gadgets of the Decade: 11 Bonus Dishonorable Mentions
While we're confident that we nailed our 50 worst gadgets of the decade, you commenters reminded us of a few truly…
Worst Gadgets of the Decade: Dishonorable Mentions Gallery
LG Internet Refrigerator
Back in 2001, LG got so excited about this whole internet thing that they decided to put it in…
Cybiko: "Make for Happy Best Time!!!!"
Oh oh Cybiko! Presumably born of an illicit union between a walkie-talkie and a Palm Pilot, this 2000-era gadget was…
MP3 Players in the Year 2000 Were Not So Good (But We Still Loved Them)
This is the Creative Nomad Jukebox from the year 2000. It may have been shaped like a CD player to mentally ease…
Kozmo: That Doomed Dotcom-Era Internet Delivery Service Had Me At "Hello!"
When it comes to websites, I've had my share of whirlwind romances. CuteOverload and I had a thing; Scrabulous…
Where Were You When the Segway Changed Everything?
The early '00s saw a lot of breathless reporting about the Segway. Steve Jobs endorsed it and Time magazine ran a…
In 2000, the Hottest Thing on TV (and PlayStation) Was... Regis Philbin?
Video games have always been about fantasy. In 2000, my fantasy involved Regis Philbin reminding me about debt.
Will You Marry Me... Even If I Don't Have a PDA?
A decade ago, this marriage proposal was presented like a business proposal—for humorous effect. Now, that just…
The Y2K+10 Holiday Card
Have a Merry Xmas and a Happy Next Decade! Much love, The Last Decade. [Thanks Abie Sussman]
How the Decade Was Supposed To Turn Out (Spoiler: Christopher Reeve Walking)
"In the years since the new millennium, the world has seen such progress." So begins a noted Super Bowl commercial…
The 50 Worst Gadgets of the Decade
We're almost clear of the aughts. Just one more week, and we get to leave this decade behind for good. But before we…
Kids on iPods, Dial-Up Internet, 9/11, Britney Spears, and All Those "Old Things"
What does it mean to be have been born in 2000? In a video that went viral earlier this month, Allison Louie-Garcia…
Internet Killed the Newspaper Star
We knew that not even Clark Kent in his blue and red underpants could save them, but it still impresses me how fast…
Beware the 2000 Time Bomb
Go tell it on the mountain: The Y2K banking computer glitch will bring about screwy traffic lights, a worldwide…
I Was a Print Club Sticker Junkie
Print Club sticker booths, which still exist in some malls and big box stores, spawned a generation of Japanese young…