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“man, if you grew up in middle America, hearing about a Maserati, you might not even know what it was, let alone that it existed” I assure you that even a rura
by protomyth 5y ago
“man, if you grew up in middle America, hearing about a Maserati, you might not even know what it was, let alone that it existed”
I assure you that even a rural kid like me knew what a Maserati was. We had movies, TV, and car magazines. People's assumptions about information delivery pre-internet are horribly warped.
- hindsightbias 5y agoKids actually read Car & Driver or Guitar World cover to cover!
- mlac 5y agoFair - I think my point is more along the lines of seeing one and getting a detailed look at the features. That was reserved for car shows, but now there are hundreds of YouTube videos that go into a lot of depth. And immediacy - before you’d have to wait if you didn’t have car and driver handy or the movie with the Maserati in it wasn’t rewound. Now it’s 30 seconds and you’ve got more information about them than you could look at in a lifetime. Growing up, I didn’t know what certain words in songs were (because I couldn’t hear them clearly or just hadn’t heard the word). It meant finding album notes, looking for the lyrics (if they were there), then trying to use context clues to put it together.