Results: Remember These, Part 2

The release of Microsoft's much-anticipated new operating system was marked by midnight store launches and lines of customers worldwide. The iconic system, which came on CDs and had a startup sound composed by Brian Eno, introduced the Start button and task bar, recycle bin and desktop shortcuts. It also added support for longer file names and new "plug and play" capability for installing hardware. Windows 95 sold 7 million copies in its first five weeks, becoming the world's most popular operating system. Did you ever use this operating system?

There was a shining time in the final moments of the 20th century where we saw Nokia launch a string of successful handsets that, for a while, would lead it to dominate the mobile market as a whole. The Nokia 3310 was truly a giant of its time. If you didn't know someone who owned one, frankly we'd wager you were either living on the moon, or in the deepest darkest depths of Antarctica. Throughout the 90s and early 2000s, Nokia's line-up of straightforward mobile phones were loved by millions and made the Finnish telecoms company synonymous with class-leading mobile technology. The Nokia 3310 was unveiled on September 1, 2000, it featured usable SMS messaging, the beloved game Snake, and was the first affordable mobile phone to come to market with a fully internal antenna. Did you ever own a Nokia?

The Walkman débuted in Japan, in 1979, to near silence. But, within a year and a half, Sony would produce and sell two million of them. Up to this point, music was primarily a shared experience: teens blasting tunes from automobiles or sock-hopping to transistor radios; the bar-room juke; break-dancers popping and locking to the sonic backdrop of a boom box. After the Walkman, music could be silence to all but the listener, cocooned within a personal soundscape, which spooled on analog cassette tape. The effect was shocking even to its creators. "Everyone knows what headphones sound like today," the late Sony designer Yasuo Kuroki wrote in a Japanese-language memoir, from 1990. "But at the time, you couldn't even imagine it, and then suddenly Beethoven's Fifth is hammering between your ears." Did you own a Walkman?

The electric typewriter was the most used piece of office equipment. From the early 2000s onwards, computers started dominating. All the manufacturers of office typewriters have stopped production. Did you ever use an electric typewriter?

The Apple Macintosh revolutionized the entire computer industry by the year of 1984. Steve Jobs and his ingenious Macintosh team arranged for the computer to be used by the normal "person in the street" – and not only by experts. Steve Jobs could hardly put into words his enthusiasm by the launch of the Macintosh. At the legendary annual general meeting of January 24th, 1984, in the Flint Center not far from the Apple Campus in Cupertino, California, Apple co-founder initially quoted Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'" in order to raise awareness and begin a competition against IBM. "IT IS NOW 1984. IT APPEARS THAT IBM WANTS IT ALL. APPLE IS PERCEIVED TO BE THE ONLY HOPE TO OFFER IBM A RUN FOR ITS MONEY. DEALERS, AFTER INITIALLY WELCOMING IBM WITH OPEN ARMS, NOW FEAR AN IBM DOMINATED AND CONTROLLED FUTURE AND ARE TURNING BACK TO APPLE AS THE ONLY FORCE WHO CAN ENSURE THEIR FUTURE FREEDOM." Do you believe that Apple gave the "person on the street" the affordable personal computers?