11 quaint pictures of people using technology for the first time
Or put another way: Tony Blair does technology.
Here’s a chance to feel nostalgic for old technology.
A trawl through the archive reveals when people in the public eye got to try everything from emails to online shopping for the first time.
Tony Blair features heavily, because 1990s.
1. John Major using a phone only slightly smaller than Zack Morris’s in 1991.
2. Virtual reality looking fairly clunky, but doesn’t it still? 
Expertly modelled here by the Duchess of York in 1996.
3. Tony Blair having a bash at a football game on the SNES.
5. A younger Prince Of Wales trying out 3D glasses.
6. Tony Blair using the internet to send flowers to wife Cherie was news in September 1999.
7. Steve Webb claimed to be the first MP whose constituents could contact him via text message – in 2002.
8. Blair also got to try out the camera on flip phone, the lucky guy.
10/11. Prince Harry sent his first tweet only a few months before his grandmother, the Queen in 2014.
