Spice Girls and the iPhone seem like a lifetime apart. But they’re no further from each other than Trump’s first and second election win.
Spice Girls and the iPhone seem like a lifetime apart. But they’re no further from each other than Trump’s first and second election win.
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It’s because you were a kid.
I agree, mass access to the Internet changed a lot of things fundamentally. How we consume media, how we find out about things, having basic answers to uncomplicated questions at your fingertips, first at your computer, later at your phone.
Last time we had a gilded age it was after the first wave of the Industrial Revolution, we’re seeing the same thing happen after the Information Revolution
There was no television when I was growing up until age 8 or so, no color TV for a long time after that, maybe some wealthy families had tv early but not most people. Every generation since around mid to late 1800s has experienced what you have. Something happened around 1863 that changed everything. The technology advances more each day now than from the primordial seas to this time. We had simple machines, in line plane, lever and fulcrum, the wheel and fire. Electricity, telegraph, telephone, internal combustion engines, airplanes, vaccines, antibiotics, the list goes on and on, all happened after or during the 1800s.
I just think it is hilarious that you ask this type of question on a reddit sub called ask old people, but then you are talking about stuff in the 90’s and mid 00’s! If you want an old person’s perspective then ask about stuff that happened when they were kids, not when they had grandkids being born!
that brackets the rise of the internet, so it’s probably not just you. a lot changed when the internet became popular. it’s honestly really hard to imagine how we got anything done before it these days.
My perception for 70 years has been that things seem to go exponentially faster as I get older, and went incredibly slowly when I was a kid. But even so, the decade from ’95 to ’05 didn’t seem incredibly speedy to me. The music changed, yes. I liked 90s music as a 60s kid; it was kind of similar. Video games changed, yes. For me, text-based computer games to discovering WoW through a South Park episode. But nothing seemed sudden to me, not that I notice interior design. But appliances and electronics just seemed to keep updating a little every couple of years for the most part.
I had a longer gap between taking my daughter to the Spice Girls movie and getting an iPhone because I waited for iPhone 5.
Computers available to households changed everything .
Followed by the smart phone.
Now there are many households who don’t have a PC , because their phones do everything.
Dr appointment.
Shopping .
Eating .
A personal trainer.
Everything can be done in your phone.