Everyone had to have one and no one could believe how small it was.<\/p>\n For some tech context, in 2004 Google<\/a> was still a private company.<\/p>\n iTunes<\/a> was finally was made compatible with Windows machines, which made the iPod<\/a> have its largest year since its launch in 2001.<\/p>\n AOL<\/a> was still known as America Online.<\/p>\n The New York Times<\/a>, and many other sites, looked like this: http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20040306074613\/http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n We thought we knew tech. I<\/em> thought we were in the future because I could text a question to GOOGLE<\/a> and get an answer back. <\/p>\n (For more context, know that Facebook in 2011 was as big as the entire Internet was in 2004<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Think Zack Morris<\/a> phone.<\/p>\n Think back when mobile phones were just for yuppies.<\/p>\n Who would ever want to carry a phone around with them?<\/p>\n Only those elitist businesses people who can afford that ridiculous technology… like Gordon Gekko<\/a><\/p>\n Check out this report on cellphones and yuppies:![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51C2LMxwW7L._SL500_AA300_.jpg\")
<\/a>This incredibly thin phone, which was a leap from its predecessor Motorola StarTAC<\/a>, was fashionable and functional, making it the best-selling clamshell phone in the world to date<\/a> and causing a dent into Nokia’s indestructible brick phones<\/a>.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.zomm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/zackphone.jpg\")
<\/a>Now, I want you to realize that Google Glass is at an earlier<\/em> stage than that. Much earlier.<\/p>\n
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