> Also, remember that this was before smartphones, social media and the attention stealing craze. No, smartphone already existed at that point, they just were

> Also, remember that this was before smartphones, social media and the attention stealing craze. No, smartphone already existed at that point, they just were not from Apple or with Android. More popular at that time were PDA and electronic organizers, from Psion, Treo, Blackberry, with Windows Mobile... Small optimized Offline-devices with sometimes optional network-access. Even the attention-sinks already were a thing at that point, but came in form of sms, e-mail, WAP-services. But, not for the general population. Those things were expensive, and had limited benefit. So this Hipster PDA was the discount-version of those expensive Toys I mean it's even directly in the name...