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Bim forwarded a link to Mobile PC Magazine’s Top 100 Gadgets of All Time. I was immediately enveloped in warm waves of nostalgia: Rubik’s Cube (#89)! Pong (#70)! Lite-Brite! (#77)

I make a pretty lousy technophile though. I’ve only owned about five of the top 100 (Pez (#98) and Etch-a-Sketch (#50) are the other two). I’ve owned more-recent versions of the Leatherman (#67) and Cuisinart (#69). And I used to sit in the window of Radio Shack to hack on the TRS-80, which ought to count for something.

The Commodore 64 should have been on this list. It was “the” Christmas gift, whatever year that was, just as Pong had been a few years before. But maybe I’m just embarassed that I’m generally too suspicious and/or oblivious to be an early gadget adopter, and I’m grubbing for points.

One of the item descriptions in the list contains a reference to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy… did you spot it?