Thank You 2007 Here

Twitter, then a fledgling side-project, took the stage at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, in March 2007. It won the festival's Web Award, and the acceptance speech by co-founder Biz Stone was simple: "We'd like to thank you in 140 characters or less. And we just did!"

This was the moment the "screen age" truly began. It fundamentally altered how we navigate cities (goodbye, paper maps), how we date (goodbye, voicemail), and how we consume media. The reverberations of that January keynote are still being felt today in our pocket-sized universes. thank you 2007

2007 was a cultural anomaly. It was the sweet spot where DVD sales were still massive, Netflix was a red envelope in the mail, and "streaming" meant RealPlayer buffering for three minutes. Twitter, then a fledgling side-project, took the stage

Consider the pop culture staples that dropped in 2007: It fundamentally altered how we navigate cities (goodbye,