What's the greatest invention of 21st century, in your opinion? (programming.dev)

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By greatest invention I mean something that had big and positive influence.

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[-] Nath@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

That's going to be a tough one to call. Nokia Communicator had diary (calendar), web browsing and email features in the 90s. You could also tether off it, but it was dialup and most phones could do that.

That was pretty much the definition of a smart phone at the time.

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