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Jadty t1_j5w8ons wrote

Reply to comment by dan1101 in A Customer on the internet at Burger King 1998 by Djf47021

Not much you could have done on the internet back then. Text sites only, pictures, barely any video and had to download it. It’s almost uncanny to think the internet is about 30-ish years old in the hands of consumers, and went from tech novelty to transforming our way of life completely.

I think AI is gonna be the same thing 30 years from now. It is currently in the novelty stage for the consumer side with more professional uses being prominent. It won’t be long until AI does many practical everyday things better than us, and it starts becoming part of your everyday life, for example if self driving becomes 99.999% better than a human in all situations. Traffic will look like a sci fi ballet you see in movies doing crazy shit by all by itself and interconnected, knowing where every other car is going and plotting the best route for each car. You could have AI only driving areas and mixed areas if you wanna drive yourself once in a while. Highways might turn into AI driving only except for maybe emergency vehicles and law enforcement.

Also no more greasy keyboards.

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badhoneylips t1_j5x0a5c wrote

I remember owning a book around this time that listed 100 kid-friendly and “cool” websites to visit lol. Literally a printed book full of web addresses with little descriptions.

The internet of this era was awesome — at least as a kid, it was geared towards learning versus just buying crap. A couple years later, we were all writing everything on live journal and making “penpals” with people all over the world..it was seriously magical. I’m skipping some of the dark stuff that I sought out on purpose (a/s/l ??) while way too young, but overall it was just like having all the encyclopedias open at once.

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mystic3030 t1_j5x8cv5 wrote

There was definitely more than text sites and pictures available on the internet in 1998….

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Realityisjustthat t1_j5xn372 wrote

LMAO...each and every one of you humans' (MUDSILLS) by then: will be cleaning the toilets/laundry or the yards of any place or corporate owner/business you work. Only Billionaires/millionaire, government will have everything - you will work 7 days' a week! Very short version...

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Mister_JimBusiness t1_j5ymod9 wrote

Text sites only in 1998??? There were definitely porn videos on the internet by then, because I was a horned up 16 year old and I watched a lot of them

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