21Typewriter
Old-school Japanese typewriters literally had thousands of characters on their keyboard, but they were accessed by only a single key.
22CRT monitor
Old CRT monitors were very prone to image burn-in, damaging the screen permanently. The solution was to either turn off the screen or have constant movement in it. That’s the reason screensavers were created and also the origin of its name.
23Zip drive
Between floppies and CDs, there was something called a zip drive. It was like a heavy floppy that had a capacity of 750MB.
24Osborne 1
Osborne 1 was the first commercially successful portable microcomputer. Released in 1981, it weighed nearly 25 pounds, had to be plugged into the wall, and cost $1,795 (or roughly $5,000 in today’s dollars).
25Motorola DynaTAC 8000x
The first commercially available handheld cellular phone was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, which hit the market in 1983 and weighed in at 2 pounds. It was priced at $3,995.
26Commodore 64
The Commodore 64 was introduced at the CES Consumer Show in 1982 and it soon became the highest-selling single computer model of all time, with independent estimates placing the number sold between 10 and 17 million units.
27Night vision camcorder
In 1998, Sony released a camcorder that had "night vision" capabilities using infrared. The same infrared technology allowed the camera to see through people's clothes. 700,000 camcorders were sold before they were recalled.
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28Paper-based imprinters
Embossing of characters on credit cards comes from a time when merchants used to register physical imprints using devices called paper-based imprinters that pressed the card on carbon paper form to create payment slips.
