30 Unbelievable Photos From 2009 To Remind You What the World Was Like Back Then (4 of 6)

Smart cars we headed to the U.S.

In 2009, after its launch in the United States, the sale of the gasoline version of the electric smart car had skyrocketed due to the ease, comfort, and low maintenance cost offered by it.

The Blackberry and flip phones were more in style than iPhones

You read that right, the Blackberry and flip phones were still in style. They were the most popular amongst people in the government. The Blackberry classic model and its famous full keyboard’s discontinuation forced the company’s hype out of style back in 2016.

Retail stores were shutting down all across the country

The Texas Circuit City store, compelled to shut down in 2009 as many retail chains started closing down. It has led to a years-long decline in retail purchasing as online marketplaces are taking over the consumer majority.

As low as only five U.S. states had legalized same-sex marriage

In 2009, same-sex marriage was legal only in 5 U.S states. After a lot of protests and demonstrations, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the LGBTQ+ community in its 2015 verdict. With that verdict, same-sex marriage in all 50 U.S states became legally possible in 2015.

The consequences of climate change had just started to reveal themselves

This is a photograph of the pinnacle of Chacaltaya in Bolivia, which had a glacier and was home to the world’s most noteworthy ski lift at more than 17,000 feet, until 2009. The icy mass at last vanished totally that year because of environmental change incited dissolving—and soon, it turned out to be difficult to overlook what was befalling our planet.