In the beginning of , I was about to turn I upgraded my blue disc walkman for an iPod either a silver Shuffle or an orange Nano , but still used the silver-and-blue CD player in my room to blast James Morrison and Corinne Bailey Rae.
I followed season 1 of Glee as it aired week by week. I was a nerd. Transform, it did. Attempting to create a relevant summary of the cultural impact of technology in a decade jam-packed with unicorns, stunts and scandals, I decided to write about the tech that fundamentally impacted the adolescent experience of myself, the 14 East staff and much of our audience.
I asked some of our staff about the technology that shaped their decade and included their responses. Instagram debuted in October in a world where compact digital cameras and smartphones were replacing film and disposable cameras in popularity.
The app, designed for users to filter and share square snapshots of their lives, accumulated one million users in two months and 10 million in a year, according to Inc. When Instagram launched its Android platform in it was downloaded a million times in less than a day. Soon, pretty people who could perfect captions and appeared to lead interesting lives became early influencers, like the now infamous Caroline Calloway.
Snapchat also quickly attracted users and added new features like hour profile stories, video sharing, drawing, geofilters, Bitmojis, emoji status indicating streaks of daily messaging and a Snap score based on usage volume and frequency.
