200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring

Re:200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring by rvense on Saturday September 25, 2021 @03:23AM (#28651214)

I think it depends who you were. Some people went more or less directly to being always connected to an iPhone from a world of monochrome Nokias and portable CD (or cassette, even) players and the internet being on a PC tower in a separate room of the house, if you had it at home at all. The intermediate steps - laptops, Palm pilots, iPods - were far from universal, at least in my world.

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Re:200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring by bouncycastle on Saturday September 25, 2021 @05:16AM (#28651702)

I was already using a PDA by that time (pocket PC), and the technology was already there, so not like it came out overnight. The only thing Apple improved on was the UX.

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Re:200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring by rvense on Saturday September 25, 2021 @11:28AM (#28653854)

"The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed."

Most people were blissfully unaware of the existence of PDAs, much less how they worked or what they could do, and for them the iPhone might as well have emerged perfectly formed from an unspecified bodily orifice of Steve Jobs. The statement "It almost _felt like_ a product delivered from the future" is entirely justified.

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Re:200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring by TedDoesntTalk on Saturday September 25, 2021 @10:30PM (#28657930)

> The statement "It almost _felt like_ a product delivered from the future" is entirely justified

Not in the American middle-class, upper middle-class, and wealthy.

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Re:200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring by rvense on Sunday September 26, 2021 @02:20AM (#28658809)

who cares about them

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