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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.

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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.

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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.

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I hate that I’m not old enough to think WAP means anything other that the Cardi B song

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I miss the pre social media internet so goddamn much

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Social media has existed since BBS. What changed is there’s suddenly big money in it, and virtually no barrier to entry.

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I miss the pre-“centralized Big Tech” Internet so much.

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