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Normal people never avoided tech. TVs, VCRs, DVD players, Nintendos, Atari 2600s, Colecovisions, Selectavisions, DirectTV, WebTV, Tivo, Cell phones, beepers, the list goes on and on. If you’re using a smartphone to read this, you’re using a glorified Blackberry. This stuff was what Dr. Stephen Falken from War Games and the real life people the character was based on were fleeing to the woods from in the 20th Century.
If you call websites “apps” and download them from a store, you’re not using tech. I don’t view my Smartphone as “tech” anymore than a VCR was “tech”. Smartphones are just a crappier version of landlines and computers. They try to be both and they’re not good at either.
People owned flip phones in 2006. Kids were expected to graduate high school with basic computer skills. There’s a good chance they got a laptop for college. The internet was already a standard part of life.
Apple made tech cool in 2001 with the iPod and in 2007, “normies” went apeshit for the iPhone. Not to mention how half the business world was using Blackberries and the early Windows-on-a-phone (forgot the name lol) already.
Normal people never avoided tech. TVs, VCRs, DVD players, Nintendos, Atari 2600s, Colecovisions, Selectavisions, DirectTV, WebTV, Tivo, Cell phones, beepers, the list goes on and on. If you’re using a smartphone to read this, you’re using a glorified Blackberry. This stuff was what Dr. Stephen Falken from War Games and the real life people the character was based on were fleeing to the woods from in the 20th Century.
If you call websites “apps” and download them from a store, you’re not using tech. I don’t view my Smartphone as “tech” anymore than a VCR was “tech”. Smartphones are just a crappier version of landlines and computers. They try to be both and they’re not good at either.
Yeah, the premise of this post makes no sense.
People owned flip phones in 2006. Kids were expected to graduate high school with basic computer skills. There’s a good chance they got a laptop for college. The internet was already a standard part of life.
Apple made tech cool in 2001 with the iPod and in 2007, “normies” went apeshit for the iPhone. Not to mention how half the business world was using Blackberries and the early Windows-on-a-phone (forgot the name lol) already.