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iPods may be gone, but the Apple logo lives on.

Apple's iconic logo is rumored to have been inspired by Eve's bite into the apple of knowledge, Newton's discovery of gravity, and Alan Turing's untimely end. Are any of these stories true?

Stacy Conradt
A 2000 reveler decorates for mutually assured nuclear destruction.

Nuclear war. Prisons unraveling. And using toilet paper for money. People were freaked out about Y2K.

Jake Rossen