The number of smartphone users in the US took a rapid jump in the last 10 years, and internet access has become nearly constant for most Americans. Would the 2009 you understand anything you say in 2019? The proliferation of new products and services has directly informed how we talk: The ’90s was the decade when photoshop became a verb the ’00s were when we coined the term to google and the 2010s were when we did the same thing to Venmo, Netflix (and chill), Uber, Postmates, and Shazam - activities that are so specific and new that we had to verb the proper name. When you start to think about the things that didn’t exist until the 2010s, you'll have that disorienting realization that many of the social apps, streaming services, dating platforms, ride-hail startups, and virtual assistants integral to our everyday lives are barely a few years old.Īnd as technology has evolved in the last decade, so has our vocabulary.
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