TECH RADAR
The year is 1996: MSNBC just launched, there’s a new computer called the Sony Vaio, the inaugural Mission: Impossible movie is in theaters, Spice Girls just had their first ever Number 1 hit, Wannabe, and a virtual butler called Jeeves now lets you type your innermost questions into a search bar – provided you’re allowed to unplug the house phone for long enough to get dial-up internet.
Oh, and if you’re lucky enough to own a cell phone, it’s probably a Nokia that doesn’t look too dissimilar to the two new models the company just released in the here and now – the Nokia 130 and 150.
These are phones for people who want to disconnect, and who want to be reminded of simpler times. I’m talking about a time when scrolling was a passive activity that meant watching and waiting for the TV dial to tick over to the number you’d keyed in on your remote on whichever teletext service you had access to.
