How Steve Jobs and Bill Gates defined a decade of tech—according to CNN’s The 2000s

The promo for The 2000s.

"We're in for the communications ride of our lives," CNN's Greg Lefevre says in a January 2, 2000, broadcast dug up for the news network's latest decade documentary, The 2000s. "The coming years see cell phones small enough to fit in your pocket, the promise of video phones coming true, tiny hand sized computers that know your favorite subjects, and Internet everywhere."

Talk about prescience. Though most people reading this website can likely remember the 2000s as if it were yesterday, retrospectives and nostalgia have started to come in. And even if it feels a bit too soon-ish for such treatment, it's hard to argue with the need to acknowledge the time period's relevance and impact. The previous decade unequivocally changed the way we operate in a technological sense: the rise of smartphones, the start of companies like Facebook, Google, and YouTube, the ability to get whatever you want whenever you want it.

CNN has been producing these decade projects for a while now-its hour on tech in the 1990s ended up among our favorite hours of 2017 TV-and it would be easy for last night's installment to feel particularly unsurprising. After all, "The iDecade" episode of The 2000s sets out to detail the evolution of technology from 2000 through 2010, essentially spelling out how today became today.

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