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> Back then, most people didn't have home computers. you had a much different perspective of 99 than I did. That factoid might have been true for-the-public-

by serf 4y ago

> Back then, most people didn't have home computers. you had a much different perspective of 99 than I did. That factoid might have been true for-the-public-at-large, but certainly not for the offices of large CGI or dev firms.

asciimov 4y ago
> for-the-public-at-large True. Most of the people I knew with computers back then had them provided by their work, or bought them for university. But then I lived in a small city in Texas not near a major metro. Most people there didn't buy a home pc until the DotCom boom brought those cheap emachines.
- Consultant32452 4y ago
  I decided to look it up. In 2000, 51% of households had a computer a 41% had internet. https://www.infoplease.com/math-science/computers-internet/us-households-with-computers-and-internet-use-1984-2014 https://www.infoplease.com/math-science/computers-internet/u...
  - hinkley 4y ago
    And by the next year that had jumped to 56% and 50% respectively. That's 25 million Americans who got the Internet in a 12 month period. And that 2000 number was up from 36.6% and 18% in 1997. You can't project backward two years from a 2000 number during that era. You're missing data points during the steepest part of the curve.
hinkley 4y ago
Animated movies take years to make. > The story likely takes place in 1998, though Jacob admits he’s foggy on the exact date. In 1998 we were living in Internet Time. The amount of stuff that changed from '97 to '98 and from '98 to '99 made people's heads spin. Google incorporated in September of 1998. 56K modems were brand new that year. At the end of 1999 when Toy Story 2 came out, Napster had been out for 5 months, and Java 1.2 was just about to exit from beta into general availability. People were still introducing each other to WinAmp when they started storyboarding this movie.

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> Back then, most people didn't have home computers. you had a much different perspective of 99 than I did. That factoid might have been true for-the-public-

by serf 4y ago

asciimov 4y ago
> for-the-public-at-large True. Most of the people I knew with computers back then had them provided by their work, or bought them for university. But then I lived in a small city in Texas not near a major metro. Most people there didn't buy a home pc until the DotCom boom brought those cheap emachines.
- Consultant32452 4y ago
  I decided to look it up. In 2000, 51% of households had a computer a 41% had internet. https://www.infoplease.com/math-science/computers-internet/us-households-with-computers-and-internet-use-1984-2014 https://www.infoplease.com/math-science/computers-internet/u...
  - hinkley 4y ago
    And by the next year that had jumped to 56% and 50% respectively. That's 25 million Americans who got the Internet in a 12 month period. And that 2000 number was up from 36.6% and 18% in 1997. You can't project backward two years from a 2000 number during that era. You're missing data points during the steepest part of the curve.
hinkley 4y ago
Animated movies take years to make. > The story likely takes place in 1998, though Jacob admits he’s foggy on the exact date. In 1998 we were living in Internet Time. The amount of stuff that changed from '97 to '98 and from '98 to '99 made people's heads spin. Google incorporated in September of 1998. 56K modems were brand new that year. At the end of 1999 when Toy Story 2 came out, Napster had been out for 5 months, and Java 1.2 was just about to exit from beta into general availability. People were still introducing each other to WinAmp when they started storyboarding this movie.