Apple’s First iPhone Was Made in 1983

The first iPhone was actually dreamed up in 1983. Forget that silly old touchscreen, this iPhone was a landline with full, all-white handset and a built-in screen controlled with a stylus.

The phone was designed for Apple by Hartmut Esslinger, an influential designer who helped make the Apple IIc computer (Apple’s first “portable” computer) and later founded Frogdesign. The 1983 iPhone certainly fits in with Esslinger’s other designs for Apple. It also foreshadows the touchscreens of both theiPhone and iPad.

Images of the 1983 iPhone have been circling the web for a while but there has been renewed interest in Apple’s early designs and history thanks to a peak inside Stanford University’s massive trove of Apple documents. The archives are a close-guarded secret but Stanford is starting to grant access to select journalists and organizations. The archives were donated in 1997 after Steve Jobs rejoined the company and document much of the design and personnel changes that took place in the 1980s.

The 1983 iPhone is just one of many prototypes buried in Apple’s past. There’s even a device that looks eerily similar to an iPad. Despite the phone’s age, it actually looks like a cool concept that could easily be updated into a modern consumer product by replacing simple stylus screen with an iPad-like interface.
Mashable has reached out to Stanford to get a private look into the material. Stay tuned for more, but in the mean time, take a look at some pics of the iPhone that never was.

Baby World :Cute, Funny & Fantastic

Black Humor

If you have sex with your clone, are you gay or are you masturbating ?





The most powerful position is on your knees.
Sign outside of a baptist church







Guy: "Were you raised on a chicken farm?"

Girl: "No, why?"

Guy: "Cause you sure know how to raise some cock!"






Participating in an auction on E-Bay is like participating in the Special Olympics. Even if you win,you're still retarded.
Aaron Flippo




You can't get a no if you don't ask.




I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed there would be no more war.
Abbie Hoffman, 1960s revolutionary.






It's not that life is so short, it's just that your dead for so long.



If you think you've hit rock bottom, the only thing that can cheer you up is bringing somebody else down with you.



Reality is Public opinion.
Patrick Burn




Sleep is overrated. It's like practicing death.
T. Henry




In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.
Celia Green








All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer




I want to name my kids after people I hate, so I can beat them - and feel good about it.



Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end . . .
Jerry Seinfeld




I would never die for my beliefs, I might be wrong.



I fear the ignorance of others has stifled my genius.
Chris Capozzi




Childhood ends when you find out there are no monsters in your closet........and that they are really walking the streets.
Mike Hutchison





Diplomacy is telling someone to "Go to Hell" in such a way, they look forward to taking the trip.
Model UN Motto 




The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.






Black fella talkin to a white fella: Dear white fella,
when I'm born I'm black.
When I grow up I'm black.
When I'm cold I'm black.
When I go in the sun I'm black.
When I'm sick I'm black,
and when I die I am STILL black. 


And you white fellas, 
you're born pink,
you grow up white, 
when you're cold you're blue,
when you're in the sun your red,
when you're sick you're green
and when you die you turn grey... 


and you call ME colored !!!!

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6-Foot Stormtrooper Cake Weighing 300 Pounds for GEEKS

For the Arisia Sci-Fi Convention in Boston, baker Amanda Oakleaf concocted the perfect dessert: a Stormtrooper cake measuring 6 feet and 4 inches. Weighing in at more than 300 pounds, this cake fed 600 hungry geeks.

Here’s what Oakleaf, of Oakleaf Cakes, had to say about the experience:

"The building of the Stormtrooper cake was an epic event in and of itself. It took our entire wonderful crew of ten people two full weeks of to put this guy together (although the cake wasn’t added until 2 days before it was to be served). Along the way we even had to invent completely new cake making methods so it could be put together modularly onsite, hold its fondant over long vertical stretches, and stand on two beautifully sculpted Rice Kripsy legs that supported his 300 lb body –all while keeping every bit of cake tasting light, fluffy, and delicious!"

Check out the photos below to see how her team built this epic cake.

Image: Oakleaf Cakes

Image: Oakleaf Cakes

Image: Oakleaf Cakes

Image: Oakleaf Cakes

Image: Oakleaf Cakes

Image: Oakleaf Cakes

Image: Oakleaf Cake

The Idiocy of the English Language

If you are at all acquainted with the English language, you may have noticed some common sayings and words in there that are really silly, once you come to think of it. For example, why is it called a boxing ring when it is actually a square? Why is the load of the ship referred to as cargo, but when a truck carries a load on land, that is referred to as shipping? Actors recite a play for an audience, but then they play at a recital. See? It doesn’t make sense! But that is English, unfortunately. That is also one of the reasons why English is such a hard language to speak fluently – incorporating all its nuances. Ask me – I’ve been there. There are so many things you simply have to know.

If you want to read more about the silliness of English, there is this poem. It is unfortunately not the original one that inspired this post – that one was printed in my English handbook and I can’t find it – but most of the cartoons of this post are also illustrations from it.

You would not believe how many “desert peaches” I’ve seen at the grocer. I always wonder if they are all sandy and dry. And I’ve also had several people ask me if I would live in a dessert. “No, I don’t think so. It would probably be very sticky. And sickly.” Then they look at me as if I’ve gone mad.

What the hell just happened there? Please excuse the language: I just felt that was the only suitable comment to use. 

Yes. And if fire fighters fight fires, what then do freedom fighters fight?

Why do we drive on parkways…

… and park on driveways?

Oh. Well, I just asked the dictionary, and apparently the word “pineapple” is derived from the Middle English word for “pinecone”. The fruit seems to have reminded whoever named it of a pinecone. If you say so. I can’t say I really see the resemblance. Except maybe in the shape.

So sometimes the connections do make sense. A lot of the time they do not, however. But no-one can deny that English is a creative language!