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The Apple watch from 1995 is a weird collectible with wacky design

It won't pair with your iPhone, but it's weird and fun and quite possibly the wackiest design ever released by the house of Apple

Apple Watch from 1995
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Danny Milton | Bloomberg
Apple Watch — these two words no doubt bring to mind the sleek, smart device that puts a computer on your wrist. It’s a piece of technology that has permeated our lives. But the one Tim Cook debuted in 2014 (launched in 2015) wasn’t the first Apple Watch. A little-known, largely forgotten relic of the World Wide Web era came two decades earlier.
 
Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder and prickly visionary, had been ousted. In the ensuing years, the company endured a level of innovation-stasis, iterating on the same technologies year-in and year-out. As a result, it slowly began

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