Still feels fresh, but the world has definitely shifted.

Hard to believe the first iPhone came out six years later and those bubble-shaped colorful iMac G3s were state of the art. There were only 29M websites, compared to 1.13B today. It was hard to find organic food. Average price of NYC apartments was $733K, now it's $3.8M.

Interest rates were the same.

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