Most of us were like “holy shit, Nintendo 64. Whoa, PlayStation. Dude, you got a Dell! It’s got a SoundBlaster! Check out this new Internet thing! It’s got the World Wide Web! I’m gonna gel my hair and skateboard listening to Korn on my Discman with antiskip while eating 3d Doritos”
And if you asked us about world events we would have been like “gulf war was lame”
We were too young to really have known about how bad shit was getting, and the internet was just taking off and info did not travel like it does today. Video on a computer was an novelty (lots of windows loyalists called Apple’s QuickTime a gimmick and that it’d never last; until they got a video player themselves) and it took hours to download a few MB. There was no YouTube or TikTok, no live streams, barely any “feeds”, nothing was pushed to you, no WiFi even. Going on the computer was a purposeful activity you spent a slice of your day doing, like reading a book or gaming.
We did not have the window to the world we have now. We all like to pretend that it’s getting worse; and it IS, but also we’re just now waking up to the lie we were told our whole lives and just how deep that lie goes.
Most of us were like “holy shit, Nintendo 64. Whoa, PlayStation. Dude, you got a Dell! It’s got a SoundBlaster! Check out this new Internet thing! It’s got the World Wide Web! I’m gonna gel my hair and skateboard listening to Korn on my Discman with antiskip while eating 3d Doritos”
And if you asked us about world events we would have been like “gulf war was lame”
We were too young to really have known about how bad shit was getting, and the internet was just taking off and info did not travel like it does today. Video on a computer was an novelty (lots of windows loyalists called Apple’s QuickTime a gimmick and that it’d never last; until they got a video player themselves) and it took hours to download a few MB. There was no YouTube or TikTok, no live streams, barely any “feeds”, nothing was pushed to you, no WiFi even. Going on the computer was a purposeful activity you spent a slice of your day doing, like reading a book or gaming.
We did not have the window to the world we have now. We all like to pretend that it’s getting worse; and it IS, but also we’re just now waking up to the lie we were told our whole lives and just how deep that lie goes.