August 24, 1995. Thousands of adults camped outside computer stores at midnight. For software.
We write the news of this exact day in 1995, every morning, like it's still that morning.
Read that whole insane morning: todaythen.com/sample
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This one computer ran the entire World Wide Web (1990).
The sticker on the case reads: "This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!"
The internet had an off switch, and it was this button.
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Game Boy (1989).
Two AA batteries. Thirty hours.
Your phone would like a word.
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The Odyssey is packing theatres this week. Thirty one years ago it was Apollo 13, still the number one movie in America four weeks after opening, with $111 million in the bank and 2,300 theatres full of people who already knew exactly how it ended.
What if we had IMAX back then?
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