Last week, we posted about an article from Vanity Fair entitled, The Empire Reboots. Terrific article on Microsoft, with focus on the current relationship of Bill Gates and Satya Nadella and the longtime reign of CEO Steve Ballmer.

Matt Rosoff, from CITEworld, read the Vanity Fair piece and posted a tweet-storm based on the idea that a time traveler from today went back to 2004 and met Steve Ballmer, filling him in on ten years of tech advances.

For example:

The most valuable tech company–in fact, most valuable company–is Apple. Yeah, that Apple. iPod. Mac.

and

They got there by building a smartphone with a touchscreen, browser, and apps. It was years ahead of the competition.

Here’s a single page that gathers the tweet-storm and some additional thoughts. Nice job, Matt.