Let us hark back to a time when a laptop seemed like a clunky, slow nuisance that would probably never catch on, or when we couldn’t imagine being able to watch The Simpsons at any time other than 6pm after school on Channel 4...
90sThese days we hear of babies attempting to zoom in on printed photographs because of how accustomed to using technology like iPads this generation is from an early age.
They wrote: “Those who were teenagers in the 90s, what piece of technology took you a long time to adapt to during the turn of the century?” And the responses came in thick and fast. DeathSpiral321 agreed: “I waited to get a smartphone until almost everyone else my age had one. I always used to say that I don’t need to have the internet with me all the time. Once I made the switch though, there was no looking back.”There was a time when even putting your real moniker in your MSN name seemed like a breach of privacy, with most of us favouring the cheesiest song lyrics we could find instead.
“I remember the old ones my dad would have for work, and how they really sucked compared to the desktop we had. Once they started having them in schools, I still thought they sucked. I guess I knew that they would naturally get better, but the idea that a laptop would ever be powerful enough for things like gaming, serious computing ability, or small enough to be carried conveniently? Yeah right. Not any time soon.
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