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Massive over utilization as a result of hype. This tech will change the world, but we don’t know how - yet. During the 90s tech boom: * no streaming videos

Massive over utilization as a result of hype. This tech will change the world, but we don’t know how - yet. During the 90s tech boom: * no streaming videos * no ebooks * advertisers hated social media * email cost money * Amazon just sold books * cloud computing wasn’t anywhere near mature * secure internet connections were insanely rare * cell phones were only on tv * identity theft wasn’t a thing * subscription based “walled gardens” like AOL were popular * server side programming was done in C Nobody knows where generative AI will take us. And that’s great!

randomdata 3y ago
> no streaming videos Funny, iCraveTV is the 90s 'dot-com' company I remember most. > cell phones were only on tv Perhaps you are referring to an 80s tech boom instead? That's when the "Zack Morris" phone was something for TV. By the 90s tech boom, everyone had a MicroTac. > server side programming was done in C And bash! Hard to imagine now. Although Perl reigned supreme.
mmh0000 3y ago
> * no streaming videos RealPlayer, Macromedia Flash & Shockwave were quite popular (and horrible) > * no ebooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebook#1980s_and_1990s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebook#1980s_and_1990s > * advertisers hated social media The social media user base was tiny and primarily full of antisocial nerds. > * email cost money No, it didn't. > * Amazon just sold books By 1999, Amazon was selling other stuff too. > * cloud computing wasn't anywhere near mature It depends on how you define "mature," I suppose. VPSs, dedicated hardware rentals, and managed services were quite common. > * cell phones were only on TV Having been in high school from ~1996 to 1999, I can say that a good portion of the girls had cell phones. > * identity theft wasn't a thing Identity theft has been a thing since the beginning of the human race. > * Subscription-based "walled gardens" like AOL were popular Almost everyone in the tech community widely mocked AOL. It was "popular" among a small subset of computer users. And to be fair, this was before good search engines. Services like Yahoo! and AOL made it possible to find content easily. > * server side programming was done in C And PERL, and Fortran, and Shell, and .NET language like C#.
- d0mine 3y ago
  C# is not 90s
  - neonsunset 3y ago
    This. Arguably, it makes most other GC-based languages look like 90s in 2024.

randomdata 3y ago

> no streaming videos Funny, iCraveTV is the 90s 'dot-com' company I remember most. > cell phones were only on tv Perhaps you are referring to an 80s tech boom instead? That's when the "Zack Morris" phone was something for TV. By the 90s tech boom, everyone had a MicroTac. > server side programming was done in C And bash! Hard to imagine now. Although Perl reigned supreme.

mmh0000 3y ago

> * no streaming videos RealPlayer, Macromedia Flash & Shockwave were quite popular (and horrible) > * no ebooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebook#1980s_and_1990s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebook#1980s_and_1990s > * advertisers hated social media The social media user base was tiny and primarily full of antisocial nerds. > * email cost money No, it didn't. > * Amazon just sold books By 1999, Amazon was selling other stuff too. > * cloud computing wasn't anywhere near mature It depends on how you define "mature," I suppose. VPSs, dedicated hardware rentals, and managed services were quite common. > * cell phones were only on TV Having been in high school from ~1996 to 1999, I can say that a good portion of the girls had cell phones. > * identity theft wasn't a thing Identity theft has been a thing since the beginning of the human race. > * Subscription-based "walled gardens" like AOL were popular Almost everyone in the tech community widely mocked AOL. It was "popular" among a small subset of computer users. And to be fair, this was before good search engines. Services like Yahoo! and AOL made it possible to find content easily. > * server side programming was done in C And PERL, and Fortran, and Shell, and .NET language like C#.

d0mine 3y ago
C# is not 90s
- neonsunset 3y ago
  This. Arguably, it makes most other GC-based languages look like 90s in 2024.