Contemporary · North America · Technology

2007

iPhone unveiled

January 9, 2007

Steve Jobs walked onstage at Macworld in San Francisco in his black turtleneck and demonstrated a slab of glass that combined a phone, an iPod, and an internet communicator. The audience laughed at first, then gasped. The keyboard vanished, the app store followed, and within five years the entire planet had a supercomputer in its pocket.

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Benazir Bhutto assassinated · South Asia · Politics
Harry Potter ends · Europe · Culture
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Before and after in North America

Before: March 21, 2006: Twitter takes flight
After: September 15, 2008: Lehman Brothers collapses

Before and after in Technology

Before: March 21, 2006: Twitter takes flight
After: September 23, 2008: Android arrives

Era

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