How did we live before iPhones?

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It’s hard to believe, but exactly 10 years ago, January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs showed the world the first iPhone. 10 years! It seems that it was just. But even more difficult to believe that a generation of people who did not see the world without smartphones was born and grew up. "Medusa" and Re: Store recall how our life was arranged before the iPhone. Tell your children about this.

The most important thing: people did not look into the screens . Constantly. In a cafe, people talked with each other. On vacation - too. Even a birthday!

If you went to the concert, hundreds of screens did not obscure the scene .

If you found something beautiful, you did not get the phone to show it on Instagram . Because there was no Instagram yet, and the phones took such photos that you can’t call them photos.

By the way, there were almost no social networks (Facebook, for example, was, only in Russia almost no one knew about it), but they used them on the computer. And they talked with the help of the SSMEC. And icq. And LJ.

There were many problems with a taxi too. Firstly, there were almost no. And you did not order them through applications, because there were no applications. You caught a bomb and showed him the way. Because there were no navigators either.

There were no mobile banks yet. Therefore, everyone stood in endless lines. Quickly throw someone money? Drive cash.

Yes, there was no selfie yet. Maybe this is even for the better.

But there were cameras. And MP3 players. For each case of life there was a gadget.

But there were no streaming services like Apple Music. Because mobile Internet practically did not work.

There were no games in which we all now play. Angry Birds, Temple Run, Fruit Ninja, “2048” - this is all from the future. But there was a "snake"!

Do you know what has never happened yet? Charging. No, they were, but they played a much smaller role - because the phones worked for days and did not sit down. Do you know why? Because they were for calls and SMS!

About the SSMES. If you, for example, had to write “according to”, you had to click on the top five at first, then wait a second and press the five more times. Because all the letters were squeezed into 10 digital buttons.

Medusa, by the way, was not there either. And Re: Store was already ! And Jobs was alive.