If impending holiday stress has you in fetal flashback mode, walk down memory lane to the golden year of 1985, when gas lamps lit our streets and the Internet was pulled by horses. Actually, holidays in the 1980s were as hellacious as they are now, and perhaps more so because George Michael was playing on the radio. Anyway, Download Squad is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Windows 1.0 with an astounding list of trivia surrounding the big release.

Not intimidated by the holidays? (And undeterred by rough editorial transitions like this one?) Then hook into Engadget's virtual window-shopping site, holidaygiftguide.engadget.com. It's a holiday gift guide, don't you know. The crack Engadget team (sleepless androids, all of them) will add a new item every day through December 24.