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this this the part that I brought up about 20 years ago is important to you important to me

I should say and it should be important

to you to understand this as well. 20 years ago we didn't have smartphones. 20 years ago we had you know the

kind of start of the flip phone craze

you know the dot com

uh...

boom happened in the very very very turn of the century

ninety nine two thousand two thousand two thousand one very turn of the century 99 2000 2001 is when the dot-com boom really started we

went from being in dial-up mode in the late 90s to being you know you know fully

connected to the internet and

then we started to see an expansion of the expansion of the internet

uh... and the growth of uh... social media but she still had to get in front of a computer, right?

You still had to come home, you had to connect to your laptop or your desktop or

whatever it might be.

And then around, you know, they happened, that was that way for for a few years in

around two thousand nine two thousand ten to two thousand eleven somewhere

that neighborhood

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