It's been 10 years since the iPhone debuted — look how terrible the first one seems today (AAPL)
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10 years ago, Steve Jobs revealed the first iPhone to the world.
It was a revelation.
Before the iPhone came out, smartphones were clunky devices, half keyboard and half screen.
Full websites didn't run on mobile phones, so companies were forced to build weak, mobile versions of their sites.
The iPhone changed all that.
And yet, the typical smartphone experiences we all enjoy today didn't happen overnight. It took years of Apple adding feature upon feature. By today's standards, the original iPhone was a primitive brick.
As a reminder of how far the iPhone has come, we've put together this slideshow.
Jay Yarow contributed to an earlier version of this story.
Yes, the original iPhone was a revelation. Here's what the competition looked like at the time:
WSJThat said, it's fun to look back and see how many now-common features were missing from the original iPhone.
APIt ran on "EDGE," or 2G wireless, which is painfully slow. It's basically as slow as home internet was before high-speed broadband.
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