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The iPhone is 15 years old, so it wasn't in the last decade.


No. But ubiquity and smartphones being just part of the fabric of everyday life comes pretty close to squeezing into the last decade. I didn't have one until probably 2011 (iPhone 3GS) and I'm not really a technology laggard.


The always on always online computer in your pocket changed things for sure - and perhaps it was the Internet finally coming into its own.

Maybe (maybe) ChatGPT will do something similarly transformative (I’m sus as the kids say).


From the perspective of today, the dot-com era wasn't really that different from before from the perspective of consumers. OK, e-commerce was gearing up but it's not like we didn't have mail order catalogs before. Many of us had feature phones but didn't use them a lot; you were mostly still tethered to a desktop of maybe laptop. Online information could still be pretty sparse for many things. Not really any streaming entertainment. Etc.




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