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What you mention doesn't apply to 10 years ago. Maybe 20-50 years ago.
by jrp 17y ago
What you mention doesn't apply to 10 years ago. Maybe 20-50 years ago.
- rglullis 17y ago10 years ago there was no iPod. Even mp3 was not that popular. It was when Napster started. 10 years ago there was NO way you could have video on the internet. Real streaming was a joke. 10 years ago, people were still using Altavista and getting internet access through AOL CDs. 10 years ago, Yahoo! Mail offered 2MB of space. 10 years ago, there was no genome sequencing complete. 10 years ago, cell phones were small, but they couldn't do much besides talking and texting. Remember how they looked like? Motorola's Startac was pretty modern, and it didn't have a LCD screen. Color displays were a dream.
- WilliamLP 17y agoFor a decade of advancement, your examples are very weak. Compare 1970->1980 or 1980->1990 for the change in everyday technology! I had an mp3 player in 2000. Creative released a 6GB hard drive based player in 2000 with which you'd still do fine today. It was Napster's heyday. I had a cable connection very capable of delivering video on the internet. Sure, the majority of streaming was porn sites, but the capability was there. I was using Google then, like I am now. The Startac was released in 1996. By 2000 there were many LCD phones, and the BlackBerry was available. I don't see how a tech-savvy person could not have lived a very similar life in 2000. Look at 1990 with no graphical internet (for instance) and qualitatively less computer capability, and there really isn't any comparison in rate of change.
- ugh 17y agoTech-savy, sure. But not the rest. People didn't use all that in 2000, now they do, whether or not they are tech-savy. That counts for change.