Credit to Chris Williamson for coming up with this though. I just found it worth sharing.
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.
Social media has existed since BBS. What changed is there’s suddenly big money in it, and virtually no barrier to entry.
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.
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.
I hate that I’m not old enough to think WAP means anything other that the Cardi B song