Electronics

Radios, record players, early computers, and the gadgets that amazed us.

Jason Parker and the Day the iPhone Stopped Feeling Like Science Fiction

Jason Parker remembers watching Steve Jobs introduce the iPhone and feeling, in real time, that a phone shouldn’t be able to do all that. Not long after, everyone had one—and the world began moving faster than it used to.

Jessica Morales and the Little Door Sound of AOL Instant Messenger (2001)

In 2001, Jessica Morales measured connection by a tiny door-opening sound—AOL Instant Messenger turning after-school hours into late-night conversations that didn’t steal the family phone line.