Facebook Is the AOL of 2021

Re:Facebook Is the AOL of 2021 by trainsplanes on Monday August 30, 2021 @09:04PM (#28362859)

Feels strange to say 1991 was the heyday. I don't know of a single person with a home PC in 1991, much less internet.

Mid-90s to very early 2000s was nonstop AOL commercials and CDs in the mail. Chat rooms were booming and you couldn't watch a single TV show without a "You've got mail!" reference.

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Re:Facebook Is the AOL of 2021 by nostrademons on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @12:48AM (#28364073)

"The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed." -- William Gibson.

I was the last of my friends in elementary school to get a computer - my first was a Mac LC in 1991. Where I was, they were rare in 1986 but ubiquitous by about 1989. Would go over to friends' houses to play Carmen Sandiego, Oregon Trail, or Number Munchers. I was on the WWW by 1994. Grew up in suburban Boston, so the area was relatively affluent and educated.

I suspect this is like how my 3-year-old (growing up in Silicon Valley) thinks that robots, self-driving cars, and drones are just an ordinary part of reality, while they remain science-fiction for many Americans.

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Re:Facebook Is the AOL of 2021 by kevinventullo on Monday August 30, 2021 @10:50PM (#28363417)

To bolster your point, the movie “You’ve Got Mail” released in December 1998.

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