Great callout. To me the biggest revolution came from USB mass storage devices. You either juggled 1.44MB floppy disks around, had to use CD-ROMs, or you had to

Great callout. To me the biggest revolution came from USB mass storage devices. You either juggled 1.44MB floppy disks around, had to use CD-ROMs, or you had to open up your desktop and plug in a HDD. With USB, all you had to do was stick a small plastic widget in a USB socket and you were ready to go. How cool is that? Flash memory hammered home we lived in the future. Some USB flash drives fitted right into a USB type A plug, and stored hundreds of megabytes.