especially since the computer was mostly in the living room, for all to see and use.
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Valmond@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoIt’s obvious fake, but this was almost the norm (it’s overblown in the “story” ofc) in the nineties, you wouldn’t go to the computer with a paper towel lol.
Before smartphones, people were spying on everyone else just out of boredom and keeping mental notes about the smallest things, also all the sex stuff was not really taught in school and everyone was interested in it but nobody talked about it.
Very different times.
Sonor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I came of age before smart phones in NY. We had sex education. We had late night fuzzy adult TV stations that had porn on them and we had porno mags and what not. I got my first phone at 14 and it was an LG flip phone where you had to press the numbers multiple times to get the right letter to send a text, so texts were short. No internet or camera on the phone either. The iPhone came out in 2007, the same year I graduated high school. There were some proto “smart” phones that came out before like the blackberry and the sidekick but their “smart” features like the internet were cumbersome to use.
It was definitely different times but by no means were we living in the dark about sex, and society pushed sex pretty hard because it sells. Now I guess with the constant screen bombardment it feels inescapable but that’s tech in 2024 for ya.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Eh
No.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
What? What the fuck are you talking about mate? What kind of weird ass place did you live in the 90’s? Like did porn magazines and late night cable TV not exist where you were?
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I dont remember that.