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The story of Flappy Bird, the massively viral mobile game
Flappy Bird was almost preposterously simple. If you ever played the game, even once, you surely…
The terrible Nintendo controller that helped make VR happen
The Nintendo Power Glove was not good. It’s important that you know that. The Power Glove…
The history of AIM, the early internet’s most important chat app
If you were an internet user around the turn of the century, there’s a good chance…
Inside the high drama of the iPhone 4
By 2010, the iPhone era was in full swing. Smartphones were still a new and unfinished…
What Google Glass got right — and really, really wrong
Google didn’t invent the concept of smart glasses, but it did help make them mainstream. In…
How LimeWire ended the Napster music revolution
Quick: tell me how old you are by telling me which app you used to download…
How the Amazon Fire Phone failed
When Jeff Bezos decided Amazon needed to get in the smartphone game, he went all in.…
The story of the Microsoft Zune, the would-be iPod killer
The Microsoft Zune is mostly just a footnote in tech history. Microsoft spent years — and…