How did people in the 90's viewed technology? Was it really exciting or instead something they got used to.
It was super exciting as technological progress was amazing.There was a new innovation around every corner and computing power was doubling every year.This excitement basically continued all the way to the very early 2000's.
>>108349713Fast progress that empowered the user
>>108349713>beige techsome of them were white when they were new
It wasn't as in your face as nowadays. You could live a good life with just a radio and a land line phone at home.New technologies were exciting but not necessary.
It was actually pretty easy for my dad. He was an early adopter type of guy. Even if he didn't really understand why or how to use it, he'd get all the new stuff. We were the first ones on our street to get a fancy new IBM Macintosh computer with a COLOR SCREEN and a MOUSE and - gasp - even a CD-ROM drive to play Myst with its huuuuuuge 240x240 FMV sequences. Our previous computer was an Apple IIc, which was also pretty revolutionary when he bought it. And he really had no idea how to use this stuff, he was just really into new tech. Thankfully I was 5-15 in the 90s and my brain was extremely plastic so I learned how to use all of it and now here I am in 2026 on a Laotian truffle hunting website.
>>108349713>How did people in the 90's viewed technology?Porch of geese moment.
>>108349713it was exponentially getting better, in the truest sense of the wordit was amazingtech plateaued sometime before 2010
>>108350918This.
>>108349713exciting to me but most people would look at the internet or mobile data or whatever and just shrug and say they had no use for it, I was showing people email on mobiles in 1994 and people were like why the fuck do I want email on my phone....
Only exciting for tech enthusiasts aka nerds all of which were male.
Literally the same as now. Anyone saying otherwise is under the age of 35.
>>108349713bothwe got used to how your computer would be slow as shit in four years
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>>108351714would you like a refund?
>>108349713I thought it was exciting.But anyone who was into tech was called a nerd and bullied or even beaten up for it.I find it very ironic that kids today get bullied for not having the latest iPhone.Oh how the tables have turned.
>>108349713>beige techI remember working on it required a blood sacrifice. I have scarred many knuckles while trying to change an ide jumper without removing the 40 wire ide cables. Those edges were pretty sharp.
>>108350906not much was actually white, though many things were barely beige to the point where it was nearly white when new
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>>108350906Yeah beige was very much a professional/office color.Consumer tech was colorful.There was some German psychological study that claimed workers were more at ease when devices were beige.Pretty sure it was pseudoscience bullshit but the German government insisted all electronic devices in government offices had to be beige.And manufacturers didn't want to make different colors for different countries so they just made everything that might get sold to the German government one day beige.
>>108351785it was the 'molex' power connectors that did it for me, many a time stuggling to pull them out and having my hand slam back into whatever pointy objects once it finally lets go
>>108351801The site feels better to browse now. I thread I wanted to read in the morning might still be active when I get home from work on boards that used to be way too active.
>>108351373I'm 41 and you're full of shit. Tech has plateaud for at least a decade now. In the 90's things progressed rapidly.
>>108349713it was prohibitively expensive and non-essential until around 2010-present
>>108351733Just like guns
