Yes much more accurate to say smart phones came along. Back then the "mobile" experience was typically a WAP/WML service that would display text on the screen t

Yes much more accurate to say smart phones came along. Back then the "mobile" experience was typically a WAP/WML service that would display text on the screen that you could navigate. I actually worked on a service back then called Strategy.com that used WML to deliver news, weather, and traffic to mobile devices. It was very limited. We thought we were awesome when we created traffic notifications using a push service that cell providers would bundle on the phone.