Those of us who spent our elementary and middle school years in the early 2000’s were the last group of people to grow up with analog technology. We lived out our childhoods in a very transitional period. I remember when New York City had payphones on every block. I consumed my favorite movies on DVD’s and VHS tapes. I listened to CD’s on Discmans and boomboxes. I had to plug an ethernet cable into my laptop in order to access the internet. I remember the birth of Youtube and how I almost gave my cousin’s desktop multiple viruses after illegally downloading music from Limewire. Up until the age of 11, I talked to my friends on a home phone and my mom always told me I had to wait until after 9pm to do so because that’s when we had free minutes. My first cell phone was a red Motorola Rizr (not to be confused with the iconic pink Motorola Razr that every girl wanted back in the day) and texting on the T9 keyboard made my thumbs sore on the regular.
