The iPhone ended the nerd-dominated era of the internet

Evidence

With the iPhone’s arrival, the internet began to break free from both its countercultural and professional-class origins. Anyone could now be online, anywhere, at any time. The era of the nerd internet would soon be over—but it had one final act. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 200

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• XREF: This is the pivotal distribution-change moment in Marx’s collapse-of-subcultures mechanism — central to the reader’s stated goal of tracing his four-period structure.