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On this day, 18 years ago, the iPhone went on sale for the very first time at Apple and AT&T Stores across the United States. I was going to write a long piece reminiscing about that special day, but I remembered that I already did that a few years ago when I was at 9to5mac for the 14th anniversary. I highly recommend returning to that piece to relive launch day and though you may have issues with images showing up, the text is still great too if I do say so myself.