Interesting perspective. I'm 43. 15 years ago, Obama was a week away from being inaugurated. I was still in the Army. I hadn't met my wife yet. I can't think of

Interesting perspective. I'm 43. 15 years ago, Obama was a week away from being inaugurated. I was still in the Army. I hadn't met my wife yet. I can't think of a single thing I own today that I owned then. Forget computing devices. Not even the same house or same car or any clothes. My oldest cat is close. I got her Christmas 2009. Feels like an entirely differently lifetime. Hell, the first mobile phone I ever owned at all was 2007. The first laptop I ever owned was 2003. Nothing about that decade feels like "a couple years ago" other than pop culture. Apparently Taylor Swift had the top selling album of 2009. I'm pretty sure she's still popular. I guess it's an interesting cutoff. I bought my first house in 2010, so a lot of household things from then are things I still own. Shovels and ladders and what not. Certainly not telecommunications and computing devices, though. There has been way too much upheaval and change in protocols and hardware capabilities since then. Possibly no electronics at all? I think all the circuit breakers and outlets in my house are different than then. I suppose flashlights work basically the same.