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I mean...yes, from 2000 to 20005 (the "early 2000s") I indeed had a landline and ethernet cords. Just because a technology preceded the time the author mentione

• gyulai 5y ago
  But then the choice of early 2000s as a reference is just arbitrary. I mean: I have both ethernet and landline now, having never discontinued my use of them and not intending to do so in the foreseeable future. (The landline is VoIP-through-DSL, but I have a hardware VoIP phone connected to the DSL router, and the DSL itself runs on the infrastructure that was originally put into the ground and the house for use with landline phones, so in that sense both the infrastructure and the end user device could still be referred to as "landline"). The timeframe where Ethernet ascended to displace other modes of networking was mostly the 90s, though its history dates back to much earlier time periods. The only thing that's peculiar about the early 00s is that this marks the time period when PCs had already squarely displaced mainframes in business contexts and also found their way into private homes and WiFi hadn't yet broken into the mass market. (Wikipedia tells me the WiFi alliance was founded in late 1997, but I don't personally remember anyone using it until the early 00s). So, maybe in an "oral history" sense a reference to the early 00s seems justifiable as that may be what one's personal associations are. But, then again, that's the exact thing I'm poking fun at when I say "amorphous chunk of history" corresponding to the "olden days".