A Normal Person From 20 Years Ago Looks Like A Monk Today

Remembering life before the digital age

indi.ca
4 min readJan 3

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The Sony Ericcson P800, now fit for a museum

When I took out a smartphone at a baseball game in 2002, I was the only one in the whole stadium. I looked weird as hell to my friends, chatting to someone in the UK over GPRS. Now everyone has a smartphone. Any stadium can instantly turn into a festival of flashes. We forget how weird this is. It’s…

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Indrajit Samarajiva is a writer from Sri Lanka. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.