When did the mobile internet era begin?
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 5:44 am
Some would start with the first cell phone. Others might wait until the commercial deployment of 2G, the first digital wireless network. Or the introduction of the Wireless Application Protocol standard, which gave us the WAP browser, enabling access to rather primitive versions of most websites. Or it might have started with the BlackBerry 85x series, the first mainstream mobile device designed for mobile data. Or most would say the iPhone, which came more than 10 years after the first BlackBerry, eight years after WAP, nearly twenty years after 2G, and 34 years after the first mobile phone, and has since defined the visual design principles, economics, and business practices of the mobile internet era.
In reality, there is never a flip. We can pinpoint when a particular canada mobile database technology was created, tested, or deployed, but we cannot pinpoint when an era occurred. This is because it takes a lot of technological change to converge. For example, the electricity revolution was not a period of steady growth, but rather two separate waves of technological, industrial, and process-related change.
The first wave began around 1881, when Thomas Edison built power stations in Manhattan and London. Despite this fast start to the electric age—Edison had created the first working incandescent light bulb only two years earlier, and it had been commercialized only a year earlier—industrial adoption was slow. About 30 years after Edison’s first station, less than 10% of mechanical drive power in the United States came from electricity two-thirds of which was generated locally, not from the grid. But suddenly, the second wave began. Between 1910 and 1920 , the share of mechanical drive electricity quadrupled to over 50% nearly two-thirds of which came from independent power companies, and by 1929, the share was 78%.
In reality, there is never a flip. We can pinpoint when a particular canada mobile database technology was created, tested, or deployed, but we cannot pinpoint when an era occurred. This is because it takes a lot of technological change to converge. For example, the electricity revolution was not a period of steady growth, but rather two separate waves of technological, industrial, and process-related change.
The first wave began around 1881, when Thomas Edison built power stations in Manhattan and London. Despite this fast start to the electric age—Edison had created the first working incandescent light bulb only two years earlier, and it had been commercialized only a year earlier—industrial adoption was slow. About 30 years after Edison’s first station, less than 10% of mechanical drive power in the United States came from electricity two-thirds of which was generated locally, not from the grid. But suddenly, the second wave began. Between 1910 and 1920 , the share of mechanical drive electricity quadrupled to over 50% nearly two-thirds of which came from independent power companies, and by 1929, the share was 78%.