Boy were we naïve in the late 90s/early 00s, thinking all this technology was going to "help humanity".
Hell we even thought by making computers cheap enough and distributing them widely enough we were going to make African societies functional. I have a good laugh about that every time I think about it.
Idk around here it's more a differenc between GenZ and Millenials. I'm barely a Millennial almost Gen-Z. Do I remember before it existed? No. Do I remember a time before anyone had it? Yes. Nobody besides people that needed it for work and rich folks paid for internet until the mid-late 00s around here (Midwest) it was just too expensive. We went to the library to use it. Zoomers on the other hand, had it on their phones as soon as they were old enough to have one.
You guys didn't even have dial-up in the Midwest until the mid-late 00s? Considering the ubiquity of the AOL floppies in the mid-90s I find that hard to believe (unless it was all long-distance numbers, which I remember could be a problem).
Boy were we naïve in the late 90s/early 00s, thinking all this technology was going to "help humanity".
Hell we even thought by making computers cheap enough and distributing them widely enough we were going to make African societies functional. I have a good laugh about that every time I think about it.
The internet always needed to be something you go to a specific place to use, not something you have in your pocket 24 hours/day.
That IMO is the true dividing line between Gen X and Millennial: do you remember a time before the internet?
Idk around here it's more a differenc between GenZ and Millenials. I'm barely a Millennial almost Gen-Z. Do I remember before it existed? No. Do I remember a time before anyone had it? Yes. Nobody besides people that needed it for work and rich folks paid for internet until the mid-late 00s around here (Midwest) it was just too expensive. We went to the library to use it. Zoomers on the other hand, had it on their phones as soon as they were old enough to have one.
You guys didn't even have dial-up in the Midwest until the mid-late 00s? Considering the ubiquity of the AOL floppies in the mid-90s I find that hard to believe (unless it was all long-distance numbers, which I remember could be a problem).