It was the iphone and facebook that did it. Even with AOL making things easy for women and boomers it still required sitting down at a computer to join the conversation.
The iphone turned getting on the internet into something "cool" and facebook centralized everything around real names instead of handles.
Wow, I looked that term up and it’s hilarious (and kind of sad). I’m undoubtedly one of the dingdongs that jumped on the Internet at approximately that time, so I apologize. Seeing the wiki page and the shirt claiming the Internet is “full” in 1994 is a head trip and a half.
The Eternal September is almost 30 years old at this point.
It was the iphone and facebook that did it. Even with AOL making things easy for women and boomers it still required sitting down at a computer to join the conversation.
The iphone turned getting on the internet into something "cool" and facebook centralized everything around real names instead of handles.
Wow, I looked that term up and it’s hilarious (and kind of sad). I’m undoubtedly one of the dingdongs that jumped on the Internet at approximately that time, so I apologize. Seeing the wiki page and the shirt claiming the Internet is “full” in 1994 is a head trip and a half.