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Five Years Ago…
Being a Digital Media Developer allows me to really enjoy the “The Five Years Ago Game,” an exercise in which I try to think up as many everyday 2010 things as I can that five years ago either did not exist or meant something different. These can be everything from proper nouns to phrases and slang, or even broad concepts. Given the absurdly dynamic nature of how we access and use the Internet, sometimes I feel like I can play for hours.
Here are a few I’ve recently come up with:
In August of 2005:
- YouTube’s company headquarters consisted of a small office on top of a pizzeria.
- Gmail was still invite-only.
- There was no such thing as an iPhone, and the phrase “mobile apps” would’ve elicited strange looks.
- Using the term “Blu-Ray” meant you were strictly an insider.
- High School Students couldn’t use Facebook (not until September, anyway).
- Twitter was just a word used in semi-common colloquialisms (e.g. “I’m all atwitter!”).
- Movies were overwhelmingly “2D.”
- Windows Vista had just been announced.
- Saying “I’m a Mac” may have gotten you committed.
- “Social Media” likely meant going out to the movies with friends.
- MySpace was still at least sort of hip.
- Consumer processors were almost entirely single-core (Pentium 4!).
- Apple still used their own processors.
- People were using Firefox 1, only recently changed from “Firebird.”
- Kindle just meant “to catch fire.”
Care to join in? Post yours in the comments! And don’t feel restricted to just technology….
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