That way we can communicate how we can’t afford mediation, food, or housing.
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Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 9 months agoWe’re communicating instantaneously over a globe spanning computer network. In the early 90s that was not possible for the average joe. It was only in the very tail end of the decade that doing so didn’t require a fair amount of money and/or technical knowledge.
The network provides all of the information in every library on the planet to us instantaneously.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Cort@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Tbf telephones are/were a globe spanning computer network that allows instant communication… Even pre 90s
qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
Prohibitively expensive for many though. Long distance, and especially international, could be super pricey.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 months ago
No offense but I’d gladly not talk to any of you fuckers if it meant all the good shit came back
Asafum@feddit.nl 9 months ago
I hate those kinds of takes to be honest…
The world is on fire, fascism is on the rise, war is everywhere, prices are out of control, the future looks bleak as fuck, but yeah we have tictok… Woohoo…
Land_Strider@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Whenever I hear about “but we have such and such technologies that we didn’t have in the olden times you so fondly mention” as if we deride the technological marvels as the cause of current worse times. We could simply had most, if not all, of these technological improvements on top of 90s movie styles, games quality, face to face conversations, outside activities, etc. had we not taken to radicalization of every thought via mass media plus manipulated social media. One major tenable improvement besides the mostly-unrelated technological improvements that we have over 90s is the more equal rights for a lot of gender varieties and equal rights for women, and that is just about it. We have almost regressed on a lot more societal aspects all over the word, including, and sometimes more prominently, in the first world countries.
These kind of takes can be on the extreme so as to attribute all these technological improvements to a person/party. In Turkey, we have these old conservatives that attribute smartphones, relative food abundance, computers, car abundance, restaurants to Erdoğan’s reign, and arguing we wouldn’t be having these otherwise. I feel the same energy from these types of comments.