- Some products feel like they’ve been around forever, but they’re actually fairly recent inventions.
- Sliced bread, a kitchen staple, has been around for fewer than 100 years.
- It’s tough to imagine life without the MacBook and iPhone, but they’ve only been around 20 years.
Certain products have become integral to our daily lives — it seems like there was never a time that we lived without them.
However, even some that seem as old as time have been created fairly recently. Sliced bread was put on the market for the first time in 1928, after a Missouri-based jeweler, Otto Rohwedder, invented the bread slicer.
More than a third of the US population, 136 million people, were iPhone users in 2023, and the company has a particularly strong hold on Gen Z: Research released by Piper Sandler in October found 87% of teenagers surveyed said they had an iPhone, and 88% of them anticipated getting an iPhone as their next phone, too.
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However, the product was brought on the market just 17 years ago.
Take a look at all the products that haven’t been around for as long as you would think.
