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Last year’s inescapable “Wicked” and its new follow-up finale, “Wicked: For Good,” present an entirely different, far more frustrating predicament than the one Warner Bros. faced in the late aughts.

In the aughts, Google Chrome’s rise on the back of smartphone adoption replaced Internet Explorer as the default browser.

“If you think about what the aughts were culturally, there was reverence and fear about technology and how it would affect our interpersonal relationships. This is all very familiar.”

The longtime collaborators revealed Monday that they have been dating for more than a decade, pretty much since they gained popularity in the late aughts.

That compares with nearly $6 in the aughts, when the U.S. burned about a third less natural gas than it does now, according to the U.S.