For all you iPhone nuts, a reality check
June 24th, 2010 at 12:47 pm ET
For all you crazy people lined up for 5 hours in 95-degree heat to get your hands on an iPhone 4, because the iPhone 3GS you bought six months ago is now virtually a doorstop in your eyes, consider this: within my adult lifetime, portable phones weighed 17 pounds and came in a briefcase. (And, like, I’m not even that old.) And the only thing you could do with them was talk on the phone.
Nevermind that — the first cellphone I actually owned, which was very similar to the one changing the lives of the people in the video below, cost me 99 cents a minute to use — and everyone thought that was normal!
More retro phone porn here.
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Rich Mintz blogs on online fundraising and social media, American history and culture, bicycling and urbanism, food, technology, and other topics. Professionally, he's an expert in fundraising, constituency development, and social media for nonprofits, cultural organizations, cause-related marketers, and corporations. He is based in New York, where he serves as Vice President, Strategy, for 
