I did a little flickr search for iphone today to see what folks are thinking and posting about the little gadget that has so hurt my feelings by coming with a $60 monthly plan at a time when I have no need - or budget! - for such a thing.
By far the coolest picture I came across is this Apple Evolution Timeline (click here to go right to the huge version). Not only did it make me nostalgic about burning my way through the yellow pages as a twelve year old, trying to find a good price on an Apple //e. That would have been an awesome upgrade from the Radio Shack TRS-80 we had, but sadly it was out of my price range. It also features the Apple Mac Classic my wife used all through college and which I am still hoarding in a box in the closet. The last time I turned it on it displayed a little blinking question mark on the screen - probably a dead hard drive. The macs we still use are a purple iMac G4 (for my five year old to tinker on), a 12″ Powerbook “Aluminum” G4 and an iMac G5.
Besides making me feel better about not having any prospect of ever owning an iPhone, this pic is actually really handy for me - over the years I have only been in contact with macs periodically, and I tend to forget when various macs were produced and also which ones to avoid. 
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