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Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island title screen.
Pikmin 3 title screen.
an original Apple Newton MessagePad with its stylus.
a wired Mighty Mouse sitting on a table.
the MTV moon landing image.
Windows NT 4.0 desktop.
Mario Strikers Charged logo.
Windows 10 desktop.
New Super Mario Bros. 2 logo.
Windows NT 3.1 logo on a green background.
Wii Sports Resort title screen.
the Verizon and Yahoo! logos.
a 1st generation Chromecast.
a Commodore Amiga 1000 with a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
a page from the Altair BASIC programming manual.
An ad for the original iBook. Shown on the right is a Tangerine iBook G3 Clamshell. The text on the left reads "iMac to go. Introducing iBook." At the bottom is the Apple logo colored in orange, with the company's slogan from the time: "Think different."
Buzz Aldrin standing on the Moon, photographed by Neil Armstrong.
A PowerMac G4 cube banner on Apple's website from 2000. It reads: "Honey, I shrunk the supercomputer." Underneath is the text "PowerMac G4 Cube."
Intel logo.
PAL Banjo-Kazooie box.
Apollo 11's launch.
a Nintendo Famicom with controllers.
Windows Server 2003 boot screen.
The message users would see when going to a website hosted on an infected system. It reads "Welcome to http://www.worm.com ! Hacked By Chinese!"
Apple press release that reads "iTunes Music Store Downloads Top 100 Million Songs." Dated July 12, 2004.
iPhone 3G page on Apple's website from 2008. It reads "It's here. The new iPhone 3G. Twice as fast. Half the price."
Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic box.
a Donkey Kong arcade cabinet.
a Sega Saturn console with a controller.
Sony PS one console.
CNET article with a title that reads "IBM Finalizes Lotus Acquisition." The article is dated July 6, 1995.
Bandai logo.
MSN Hotmail sign in screen.
Chibi-Robo! Photo Finder promotional banner.
North American Kirby & the Amazing Mirror box.
a Sony Walkman.
Star Fox 64 box.
Original iPhone promotional banner seen on Apple's website in 2007.
Google+ logo.
WALL-E movie banner.
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards banner.
A screenshot of a page on Apple's website that says "iPhone 4 is here." To the left of the text is a photo of the iPhone 4, and underneath are 3 video links that read "Watch the Keynote, Watch the iPhone 4 video, and Watch the FaceTime video" respectively.
Nintendo 64 console with a controller.
Top portion of the Quake game box.
iOS 4 Software Update info page on Apple's website. The iOS 4 logo is seen at the top left. 4 iPhones showcasing various new features are in the center. At the top right is a text box that reads "Updating is easy" with the 30-pin cable and a blue button that says "Learn how."
Wikimedia Foundation logo.
Toy Story 3 banner. The characters are seen on the right side with the film's logo on the left.
iPhone OS 3.0 logo. The text "3.0" appears on a blue background with diagonal lines.
IBM logo.
a Samsung Chromebook.
AT&T and Time Warner logos.
Wii Play Motion banner.
an old analog TV.
a photo of Steve Ballmer
OS/2 logo.
Cars movie poster.
iPhone 3GS banner as seen on Apple's website. It reads "iPhone 3GS: The fastest, most powerful iPhone yet."
Bill Gates during his deposition for the U.S. v. Microsoft antitrust case. Gates is seen in the center with the time and date stamp at the bottom left. It reads "9:19 AM AUG 27 1998"