Credit to Chris Williamson for coming up with this though. I just found it worth sharing.
I personally think that moment was in 1993, when the Encarta CD was released.
It had a huge amount of information, but it didn’t feel overwhelming.
The internet also didn’t feel overwhelming.
In 2005, I think the internet already felt overwhelming.
But I guess if you weren’t the nerdy type crawling the web, then social media and smartphones were the game changer and I would put the date closer to 2010.
absolutely, the Iphone was the game changer.
the internet is as useful as it’s ever been it just stopped being a physical place you go, the computer, to something you carry with you everywhere as another layer of reality.
Before iPhones we had much useful BlackBerries, Nokia with advanced Symbian, some Windows CE/Mobile devices. Even feature phones had something called WAP, but it was f…ing expensive.
Who needs a stylus?
Bring back full QWERY keyboards.I hate that I’m not old enough to think WAP means anything other that the Cardi B song
Do we need like a philosophical thoughts community? Shower thoughts to me are more like “if you have a PhD all meetings you go to are doctors meetings.”
Meanwhile, on Lemmy its like “The undulating nature of the universe can be predetermined based on a set of twelve isotopic values.”
Seems like the kind of post I’d expect your average showerthought-enjoyer to not mind seeing on their feed.
EDIT: I’m up for philosophical thoughts community though
Counterpoint: “Any thought you have in the shower is a shower thought”
I keep wanting to make a post in shower thoughts asking how the hell other people remember they need shampoo, but by the time I leave the shower I forget both the shampoo and the post.
I got shampoo today, because my husband remembered, and I therefore suddenly remembered the post, though I no longer need it.
I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
- Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
- Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
- Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
- Douglas Adams
Yes you’ll cope better with technology you grew up with, but technology is also an exponential cure. For about 5500 years a guy on a horse was the fastest messaging system, then we went from beeps through a cable to video calls within 200 years.
The iPhone came out in 2007. That was the year the worm turned, imo.
People born in 2005 will be 20 this year.
STOP MAKING ME FEEL OLD, SIR!!!
