When Victoria Zannino was in middle school, back in 2013, her father gave her a precious hand-me-down in the form of a used BlackBerry. Back then, the device was a marvel. Unlike most phones on the market, it had a physical keyboard, albeit tiny, and a private messaging service called BlackBerry Messenger that she and her friends could use to text.
“I just feel like the time of the BlackBerry phone was very nostalgic,” Zannino, now 25 and working in advertising, said in an interview. “Growing up watching ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians,’ seeing them driving with one hand on the wheel and a BlackBerry in the other hand was just such a slay of a moment.”
