Well, if you count Lemmy as social media, I guess usenet is… tho it’s for nerds in universities.
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jpablo68@infosec.pub 6 days agoyeah but in 1995 there was no broadband internet so going online to check or search for something right away was out of the question, no widespread cellular phone usage so no contacting anyone at any moment, no social media, I think the cultural change in regards of how we perceive the world as interconnected has changed
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yes. But we did have computers, basic social media, cell phones, and yes, we did have what constituted fast internet wirh DSL or T1 lines. No, it wasn’t “broadband” by today’s standards, but it was fast enough. Cable internet came out for consumers in ‘96.
Point being anyone going back to ‘95 would have little trouble understanding the world, and vice-versa. The big difference would be carrying the internet, CD collection, and movies in your pocket on a phone. I daresay there would be no small number of people who would prefer the ’90s to all the bullshit happening over the last coupled decades.
Going from home PCs, early gaming consoles, cable TV, laser-discs, and a whole other shitload of changes technologically and societally between 1985 and 1955 IMO have a lot more stark differences.
jpablo68@infosec.pub 5 days ago
yeah I’m talking about widespread use of all of that
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 days ago
While you’re right, that’s splitting hairs when compared to the wild differences betwen ‘55 and ‘85 - which is NO PCs, NO cellphones, NO internet, etc. and the point of the comparison was the differences between going back to ‘95 or ‘55 from the specified decades. NOT focusing on a single aspect of today vs ‘95 which, by comparison, is minor despite some 17 year olds having mental breakdowns over the loss of a cellphone addiction.