2004 was the first year of the future

Photo collage of the 2004 package logo surrounded by various 2004 themed ephemera. Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge

In early 2004, the world was shaking it like a Polaroid picture, flocking to theaters to see what was going to happen with all those hobbits, and wondering if that Tom Brady guy was something special. Meanwhile, a few folks around the world were inventing the web as we know it now: A world-shaking social network was brewing in a Harvard dorm room. A Google employee was dreaming up the future of email in their spare time. The coolest cellphone of all time was just about to drop. The internet was still a niche activity, but that was about to change — and fast.

In so many ways, the digital world in which we now all live was created 20 years ago. Go...

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