How did they survive without PS3 slims, Xbox 360 slims, iPhones, and Androids? How did they do it?? It seems like a necessity now, how did they manage without them back before they existed??

By the way it is Xbox 360 'slim' and Playstation 3 'slim'. The original 360 was launched in 2005 and original PS3 was launched in 2006 (so was the Wii) and that is a really long time ago. So the slim versions are the modern ones.