30 products that haven’t been around for as long as you’d think
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30 products that haven’t been around for as long as you’d think
More than a third of the US population, 155 million people, were iPhone users in 2024. Research released by Piper Sandler in October found 87% of teenagers surveyed said they had an iPhone. However, the product was brought on the market just 18 years ago.
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It seems like there was never a time that we lived without Diet Coke, Post-It notes, or camera phones.
However, some items that seem as old as time were created relatively recently.
Sliced bread, for example, 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, 155 million people, were iPhone users in 2024, and Apple 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. However, the product was brought on the market just 18 years ago.
Take a look at all the products that haven’t been around for as long as you might think.
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/everyday-products-that-havent-been-around-long