In 2005, nothing seemed more technologically significant than...
1.
iPhone apps where you drank fake beer:
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Or iPhone apps where you could download a fake lighter:
3.
And even before that, phones with internet on them in the first place:
4.
Or having the option and the ability to update your Facebook... FROM A TEXT MESSAGE:
5.
Watching full-length movies that cost tens of millions of dollars to make on an iPod with a 2-inch screen:
6.
See-through electronics being the future of design:
7.
Those watches that lit up blue, truly a sign we were living in the future:
8.
A TV with a freakin' VHS player BUILT INTO IT:
9.
Or, be still my beating heart, a TV with a DVD player in it:
10.
Aggressively thick big screen TVs your one rich friend had:
11.
The original iPod and the million buttons it had:
12.
Netflix's DVD service and just the entire idea of someone SENDING a movie to you:
13.
Portable DVD players that would skip every time you moved them a centimeter:
14.
Those robot dogs that eventually died and just became things your parents tripped over:
15.
A DVD or VHS player in their car:
16.
Digital cable and being able to watch a ton of useless channels:
17.
That one paper toss iPhone game:
18.
Car phones that you would only see in TV and movies:
19.
These exact light switches that, again, your one rich friend had:
20.
That fish that everyone's uncle had for some reason:
21.
CD players with 45-second skip protection:
22.
That cassette tape that let your connect your iPod to your car stereo:
24.
Those batteries that let you check how much energy was left:
25.
And finally, the ALPHA and the OMEGA... a VHS AND DVD player:
