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I miss the days without Smartphones
a memo to the era of Flash, miniclip games and Internet Cafes’
In 2007, Steve Jobs changed the world with the Introduction of the first iPhone. “Change ” is a big word, and in this context it really changed the world!
Never before had we been hooked to a device “too small to fit in our hands” and able to do almost all the things that a full-blown Desktop setup could achieve.
Internet before Smartphones
Internet was different before smartphones were introduced. You went to Google.com to try and search your favorite TV shows, cartoon characters, check latest cricket scores, play online games, chat with your friends, install your favorite software, etc. from the world wide web.
Youtube was nascent, Internet was usually slow, and sites took a long time to load.
It was a different time when you had to go to internet cafes’ to search for study material for school assignments or play the latest GTA & Counter Strike.
Personal computing was a lot less distracting than what it is today.
To play games you had to make sure that the game was already installed on your PC or get it installed by buying a “CD” for game installation.
It was really fun to go from store to store and go through stacks of Computer game Disks checking if they would run on your computer or not. Each “CD” game would have this…