Gizmodo, Gawker Media's gadget blog, published the biggest tech story of 2010 on 19 April: photos and a teardown of a lost iPhone 4 prototype bought from someone who found it in a bar. Police raided an editor's home days later. Gawker's network also ran Lifehacker, Kotaku and Jezebel.
- Domain in 2010
- gizmodo.com
- Launched
- July 2002
- Owner in 2010
- Gawker Media
- Status today
- Still active
What people used it for
- Gadget news and reviews
- Leaks and rumours
Interface characteristics
- Gawker's shared blog template with big images
- Sidebar of most-popular posts
Notable features
- iPhone 4 prototype story (April 2010)
What happened later
Gawker Media went bankrupt in 2016 after the Hulk Hogan lawsuit; Gizmodo lives on under new owners.
Archived on the Wayback Machine
Archived pages open on web.archive.org (Internet Archive). They are historical captures, not part of this exhibit.
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