I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.
I am not that old, and I didn't have a smartphone until probably late high school. For most of my life, many if not most people were not walking around with a magic internet machine in their pocket that they pulled out and used constantly for everything.
reblog if you remember having to ration your text messages and accidentally opening the internet on your phone was the end of the world
I was in college when the iPod Touch came out. When my friend got one in 2009, we were all fascinated by the big touchscreen, the apps, and the fact that you could functionally use it to browse the internet (the first iPhone came out a couple years before that, but it was not widespread, and most of us had flip phones still.
