The Way We Were

You wake up at 7am on a wonderful morning in early 2000. Dreamy as you are, you grab your phone to check the news and your email. Well, the news is that no one has texted you while you were sleeping and that your phone doesn’t connect to the internet. Because, well, you don’t have a smartphone. Just like everyone else doesn’t. Actually, a bestselling mobile phone launched in 2000 looked like this. You could still play a round of Snake, though.

Remember the year 2000? When people got together and nobody stared at their smartphones because they didn’t exist yet? When there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook or Myspace? David Bauer is feeling a little nostalgic and takes us back (and he doesn’t even touch how different it was to go to the airport).

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