But for a specific breed of user—the power user, the tinkerer, the "modder"—the stock Symbian S60v3 operating system was merely a starting point.

In 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, but it was the Nokia N95 that sat on the throne of the mobile world. Dubbed the "Multimedia Computer," the N95 was a slider phone with a 5-megapixel Carl Zeiss lens, GPS, Wi-Fi, and a dual-slide mechanism. It was a beast.

By installing a modded kernel that opened port 80, you could host an HTML website directly from your phone’s memory card while connected to Wi-Fi.