Life moves pretty tight . If you do n’t stop and look around once in a while , you could miss it .
Wait a minute . That ’s Ferris Bueller . And Ferris Bueller is like … 55 now !
true statement is , lifedoesmove pretty fast . Presidents come and go — even if they ’re re - elected — inside the quad of a ten . It ’s been 10 year since the bout - watching pa of tv set show , " Breaking Bad , " impinge on TV filmdom . Come and gone .
Life move tight , all correct . Here are 10 thing that were n’t even around just a decennary ago .
10: Uber
Sure , 10 year ago , it was well-heeled enough to find a ride to , say , the drome . It was call getting ataxi . But in 2008 , you could n’t come a cab with a few strike on your smartphone . And , back then , it was n’t just some Joe waiting at the curb and show you into his Accord . It was a cabbie who probably had an attitude . You had to pay cash , too , and leave a tip . Uber , with its slick app and interlink fleet of Joe - possess cars , put the brakes on all that . ( Well , thetips are back . )
9: Bitcoin
Thecryptocurrency — was anything even called a cryptocurrency in 2008 ? — made its debut a small less than a decade ago , and the variety - of electronic cash has slowly made its manner into the kernel and virtual wallets of enough people , apparently , that by the final stage of 2017 more than$243 billion buck ' worthof Bitcoin was out there . We ’re not sure what good it is if , just for a for - representative , McDonald ’s does n’t take it . But word on the cryptostreet is that Joe atUber might accept it soon .
8: Instagram
Nothing typifies the technological pace of the retiring decennium quite like the photo - sharing app Instagram , though some might argue that selfie - loving Instagrammers are a stride back on the evolutionary scale . Introduced in 2010 for Apple , and two old age later for Android , Instagram(IG for those in the know ) has hundreds of million of monthly substance abuser who share some 95 million photos ( and videos ) a solar day . Since 2010 , IGers have upload more than40 billion exposure .
7: The Selfie Stick
OK , maybethisis that big tone back for humankind . Devices for holding camera , of course , have been around for a lot longer than 10 years . But since the Parousia of smartphones with front - confront tv camera , and given the length - limitations of a human branch and our basic penury to be take and upload selfies ( were they around 10 old age ago ? ) , selfie sticks became an answer to a problem we never used to have . The selfie stick strike its zenith when it was named one of Time magazine’s25 best inventions of 2014 . Really Time ?
6: Spotify
Another neophyte that owes its life — like many of us — to the cyberspace , Spotifyis the music stream choice of some 140 million users a month , who build up and switch playlists from a program library containing some 30 million songs ( the Obama White House was notable forits playlists ) . launch in late 2008 , Spotify is free , if you do n’t beware a few ads here and there . Or , if you want to ditch the ads , it ’s $ 9.99 a month . you may download tracks , too , to hear to offline . It ’s basically a gigantic nickelodeon , for you older sept , that you hear to on your smartphone .
5: “Woke”
In 2018 , if you ’re not woke , you ’re out if it . Come to think of it , " woke " may not be woke anymore . Whatever the pillow slip , back in the saturnine ages — say , 2007 — no one eff what woke meant . But in 2008 , the wordsmiths at Merriam - Webster , who pay tending to these thing , slipped it into their large book ( it ’s like like your smartphone , only with paper rather of a sieve ) and made it an official part of the lexicon . If you do n’t have intercourse what it means , you well getwoke .
4: Airbnb
Another winner in the raw sharing economic system is Airbnb . Since its launching in 2008 , it ’s messed with the hotel diligence much like Uber has disrupted the cab business . The Airbnb app and website hook up unforced quad - holders ( that room over your garage ? Perfect ! ) with hotel - antipathetic traveler . Airbnbhas places in more than 65,000 cities in more than 191 country and has provided a resting spot for more than 200 million people . How did we ever travel without it ?
3: Snapchat
The cyberspace was launched way more than 10 years ago ( thanks , Al Gore ! ) , and it ’ll be around for many more . As long as it is , it will goad excogitation like Snapchat , an overtly covert messaging app ( the figure of speech disappear by default option after a set time ) that debuted in 2011 . Snapchat and its friendly little ghost icon weresuper democratic among teensfor a while — not to mention the ego - nudie set ( no traces , you know ) — and still boasts more than 170 million users a day .
2: Tesla
Elon Muskprobably dreamt of building impossibly nerveless and fast cable car 40 years ago as a boy in South Africa . But it was n’t until 2008 that he launched theTesla Roadster , an all - galvanising fomite that has perpetually changed the car diligence . The buggy was postdate by other futuristic - look Teslas , and now every car maker on a grateful Earth is racing toward an all - galvanising future . The company is a leader in self-reliant drive tech , too . Hold onto your hind end in the next decade .
1: The iPad
The iPhone , the first reliable techno - gadget crush for millions of Americans , is right smart old . It was introduced all the way of life back in 2007 . But it was just in the last decade ( 2010 ) that Apple shook up the doo - dad world when it give us the iPhone on steroids : the iPad . It ’s a pad of paper computer that put the power of a desktop motorcar right onto the living way lounge ( and in the gondola ) . It was n’t the first tablet or the last , but it made the biggest encroachment . Sales have fallen some , victim of ever - smarter smartphones . But the iPad exist . Apple sold 10.3 millionof them in the third quarter of 2017 alone .
