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Was it though? This was well after AOL and the Endless September. There were rows of Complete Idiots Guides and For Dummies books on using the internet in major
by Kye 2y ago
Was it though? This was well after AOL and the Endless September. There were rows of Complete Idiots Guides and For Dummies books on using the internet in major book stores. You've Got Mail made a quarter billion in the box office a half decade before.
This was the time of normies. All the @aol addresses still in use were minted here.
- pseudalopex 2y agoYou are North American? Most of the world was much less online in 2004.[1] [1] https://ourworldindata.org/internet-history-just-begun https://ourworldindata.org/internet-history-just-begun
- palata 2y ago> There were rows of Complete Idiots Guides and For Dummies books Which says that people were trying to learn how to use their computer, right? Nowadays professors need to teach their university students what a file is... I can definitely accept that the users were more technically-inclined in 2004 than in 2014.
- strken 2y agoThis is a great argument for why the average internet user in 2004 was less technical than in 1994, but it says absolutely nothing about 2014.
- Kye 2y agoI thought that was just a given. How could the average be the same or more technical after going fully mainstream?