7 Palm Pilot
Productivity certainly looked different back in the day. Prior to the advent of smartphones, many business types relied on a simple device called a personal digital assistant (PDA). That name may sound familiar, but these early PDAs were nothing like Siri or Alexa. They were physical devices.
Most of them could connect to the internet and sported a variety of features for managing data and information, from email to calendars. While extremely handy at the time, their functionality eventually became standard on other consumer devices — particularly the early generations of smartphones.