2009's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries

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CRACKBERRY in motion

Research in Motion, which sounds like it should be the name of a geek boy band, was founded in 1984 in the Canadian city of Waterloo, which sounds like it should be an ABBA song. What RIM did for the next 15 years is anybody's guess, but in 1999 the company introduced the first Blackberry (two-way pager edition). What has followed has been a decade of patent lawsuits, sporadic network outages, ruined relationships and the introduction of "crackberry" into the lexicon. Ta-da.

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