Do you not remember how bad search was before Google?
It was like being at the library and using that card index system. It was like “welp, hopefully there’s a book someone decided to tag ‘field mice’ because that’s the only way I’m gonna find information about field mice”.
And with 25-million subscribers, that’s only some ~25% of American-households with AOL back then, at its absolute peak. Internet in general was never a common thing for Americans to get until the Broadband era.
If you want to talk about the internet in the 90s, be my guest. But any Millennial who lived through that era remembers that the internet was relatively rare. Most people’s exposure was through libraries and maybe schools/university systems.
I know 2/3 of those events, I’m also not American and have my own countries events to remember.
Also I 100% doubt any Zoomer (or anyone else) today will remember 90% of this stuff in 30 years either.
And by 1995 we already had search engines and could look up information. WebCrawler, Lycos, Alta Vista, Jeeves, Dogpile, Yahoo, etc.
You seem to think the 90s and 2000s were some technological dark age on par with the 80s.
Do you not remember how bad search was before Google?
It was like being at the library and using that card index system. It was like “welp, hopefully there’s a book someone decided to tag ‘field mice’ because that’s the only way I’m gonna find information about field mice”.
Uh huh. Peak AOL was 2002 my dude.
And with 25-million subscribers, that’s only some ~25% of American-households with AOL back then, at its absolute peak. Internet in general was never a common thing for Americans to get until the Broadband era.
If you want to talk about the internet in the 90s, be my guest. But any Millennial who lived through that era remembers that the internet was relatively rare. Most people’s exposure was through libraries and maybe schools/university systems.