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By photographing New York commuters in 1998, Matthew Salacuse captured
a time when the division between home and work was sharper: many of
his subjects are dressed in suits, travelling between these two
worlds; none of them are peering at smartphones.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-everyday-dramas-of-manhattan-rush-hour

>smartphones

Cost of data plans were thru the roof then.