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"This Year's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries" (Slideshow)

networkworld.com — From Apple's short-lived Lisa to Woz's "Woodstock West," with TCP-IP, Lotus 1-2-3, Word, "WarGames" and even the first real cell phone included: 1983 was a rich year in tech.

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  • ubernoggin, on 03/31/2008, -0/+3First cell phone was 2 pounds and $4,000. Get me one of those!
    • hollywoodphony, on 03/31/2008, -0/+4I got one just based on the fact that Zack Morris had it.
      • nahsrocketeer75, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2Yeah, something I read somewhere did mention that these things became known as the "Zach Morris Phone."
  • SmellyFingers, on 03/31/2008, -4/+0Pics or it didn't happen.
  • Exekutor, on 03/31/2008, -0/+10Anyone else noticed the invalid IP's next to the guy who invented DNS?
  • surKaz, on 03/31/2008, -0/+4PC world.. in 1983... Even now, it seems retarded...
    /Sarcasm

    And holy crap! that a doped up Bill Gates on top of that computer with Word?
    • nallelcm, on 03/31/2008, -0/+3Was he trying to be 'sexy'? Because he pulled it off :) what a stud
  • holyreality, on 03/31/2008, -2/+1needs a bit of explanation, as I have no idea what some of those images are in reference to.
  • MacParrot, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2Ahhh, the Apple Lisa. My brother-in-law actually had one in 1983. First time a computer doing something other than playing games geeked me. Thing cost a freaking mint though.
  • muniak, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2Paul Mockapetris is my new hero.
  • maijc, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2meh
  • Half-Fast, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2The first computer I ever used at home was an Osborne 1 that my Mom brought home from work in 84 or so. I was 17 then. Man have times changed.
  • dhughes, on 03/31/2008, -0/+5 My uncle likes to tell a story about when he got his cell phone in the early 1980's, it was one of the brick phones. Rare enough at the time in a large city even more rare in a small Canadian rural town. He said he was in K-Mart when he made a call but felt foolish so he leaned up against the wall in the entrance/porch of the store as if he were talking on a pay phone. As he talked he noticed a older lady standing quite close behind him looking in her purse, she got out some change and he realized she intended to make a call on the pay phone. When my uncle was done he left and the woman looked around in shock since there wasn't any pay phone there.
    • antdude, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Photograph/Video or it didn't happen. [grin]
  • leerayIG88, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2paper cup with a string, best phone ever.
    • MacParrot, on 03/31/2008, -0/+3Yeah, but the web interface really sucked
  • redone, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Ah, the US Festivals. Quite the party: great music, and other diversions, with a million of your closest friends.
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