The wording of "20th anniversary" might strike some as odd, seeing as the Boomslang is nearly 27 years old now, with the initial launch in 1999. Razer calls it the world's first gaming mouse, something that's a bit of a stretch but also not untrue. Technically, that title goes to Logitech's Wingman Gaming Mouse, although the Boomslang is arguably more deserving of it, having introduced many features we take as granted nowadays like high-DPI movement and macros.
In that timeframe, the Boomslang was effectively discontinued between 2000 and 2007. The brand was belonged to Kärna LLC, a company that went bankrupt in 2005. It was around 2005 that the Razer was bought and the Razer Inc company started existing as an individual entity. As far as we can ascertain, the Boomslang was actually properly re-released in 2007. Seems that Razer is celebrating its own 20th anniversary, rather than the famous rodent's.
If you're wondering what's the deal with all the references to the number 1,337, it's because it looks like "l33t", or "elite", which was the early 2000s way of describing someone or something as top-notch or high-tech. Amusingly, it quickly became used as a pejorative term. Interested buyers can get in line using the preorder form at the bottom of the Boomslang's page.
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