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7 tech sounds you can still hear in your head
The dial-up handshake. The Windows XP welcome. The iPod click. Seven sounds that told us what our machines were doing—and became part of growing…
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Hotmail at 30: the inbox that changed the web
From browser-based mail in 1996 to the Outlook.com era, Hotmail helped make an email address a lasting piece of personal identity.
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MSN Messenger: when being online was an event
Display-name drama, custom emoticons and the impatient nudge: how Messenger became a social home, and why Microsoft eventually moved its users to Skype.
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Windows XP: the desktop we never forgot
The green hill, the startup sound and a family computer full of open windows: how XP became the setting for an entire generation's digital…
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MySpace: life before the feed
Profile songs, Top 8 drama and a page you could decorate: revisiting MySpace's rise, decline, lost music and proposed 2026 return.