Can oldfags explain how the first wave of normie-friendly digital consumer technology changed society in the 80's and 90's? I mean pagers/digital organizers/early cellphones, digital fax machines, home printers hooked up to home computers, satellite cable TV, and even some analog technologies like small camcorders. What shifts in lifestyles and social relations did these devices create?
>>524043497maybe like quake 1 boys got extremely addicted to sitting on a computer all day
>>524043571You’re a nigger
>80's >90'sI can't believe there are 60+ year old people on this board.
>>524043598Yea, and here I was feeling old as a 12 year old boomer
>>524043497>Can oldfags explain...
>>524043497>What shifts in lifestyles and social relations did these devices create?Nothing really because they were luxury toys for people to mess around with. An average working man didn't have spare money for a video camera.
>>524043497>What shifts in lifestyles and social relations did these devices create?everyone wanted those new devices. some of them at least. PDAs and faxmachines sucked ass, so only suit and tie wearing motherfuckers were interested in those.camcorders and cellphones were different though, everyone was after those.a camcorder would cost 2k or 3k USD, so no one could really afford them. we sometimes rented one for special occasions like weddings or my sisters baptism.cellphones didnt start to take off until the mid 90s, early 2000s. so the change was slow. if you wanted to hang with your friends, you would still call a landline and ask their parents if they're home.i had my first cellphone in the early 2000s. when i went to high school. texting was all the rage. we all had those nokia shitbricks.there were ads in magazines and on tv for cool custom logos you could download.>Send COOL LOGO 1 to 1515 and receive this awesome ASCII graphic for only 3 USDthe real societal shift didnt really start to happen until the new kids showed up.see, oldfags taught us that all that new tech is cool to have but relying too much on it was retarded. the old ways were still prevalent. there were plenty of oldfags around who spent their whole lives without cellphones and therefore frowned upon it. they slowly died off, one after another. which is a good thing i might add.DEATH TO ALL BOOMERS
>>524044695>Send COOL LOGO 1 to 1515 and receive this awesome ASCII graphic for only 3 USDLMAO I forgot about those adsAnd you had to buy ringtones that were 10 second clips and cost like $5 each which is basically $20 in today's money, and half the population was walking around blasting their shitty custom ringine in stores and refusing to answer the phone because they wanted to hear the music>>524043497The only problem carrying a cellphone before 2000 were seen as pretentious cunts that just wanted attention, especially before 1990
>>524043497If you had any of these things (except satellite television) it meant you were either a nerd (the autistic no-friends retarded kind) or a wannabe businessman hotshot. Both at the same time, even.
>>524043497provide convenience, save free time by increasing efficiency( cordless phone, phone anywhere, as opposed to wired phone place ) same for messages, no need to post office, delivery delays, etc.bring centralized service x from remote place y to convenient place z makes A adapt base technology B ( home computer / cellphone ) which will later be engineered further into surveillance device.how you introduce a individualized surveillance grid into the civiliziaton of choice.
honestly the cell phone fucked everything, i used to have to run down tonthe beach, check the surf jump on my bike race around to my m8 house get him out of bed......now you just get a two week wave forecast fir indo jumo on a plane monitor tbe wave cams.....fkn sad.....same with film, there was some suspence waiting to see how your photos came out....& hookers had to beat the pavemevt & (you) had to pull up & say get in bitch my dick needs service
>>524043598I'm 48, been here since 04
>>524045038We got so much stuff to save time but we still don't have any spare.
AOL was a walled garden so normies on the internet didnt really happen until the iphone came out
>>524043497I feel like none of that really changed much because it was all pretty expensive so any given person had maybe one or two pieces of high-tech and it was a status symbol. plus, I dont know if anyone remembers but for a long time getting dates on the internet was utterly déclassé. only the worst social outcasts did it.
>>524045236because they took the bait and probably never heard of Diogenes
>>524043598I can tell you all about the 90s.
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>>524043571For me, it was LBA2
>>524043497Threads like this are population sampling datamining procedures designed to ascertain the demographic on /pol/
>>524043598It's probably more common than we think.
>>524043497>pagers/digital organizers/early cellphones>80s/90sIt was used by business men and criminals in the 90s. It wasn't until just around Y2K that middle class workers would get cell phones. Around 2010 all middle class and lower middle class teenagers had cell phones. Cell phones are gay and became a need and not a convenience.
>>524043497they were mostly considered toys. the internet didnt really exist the way it does now so computers were mostly just fancy calculators cellphones were something politicians and high ranking military officers had, the one thing that was common was video game consoles like nintendo and playstation, but that was mostly a thing for children and you'd have to be VERY OLD to know how life was before those existed. i think the biggest change happened relatively recently with social media + smartphones, and online video gamespeople back in the day used to jerk off to porn magazines and boys have mostly gone from playing shitty video games offline to playing slightly better video games online, probably the biggest change is for women who have had a dramatic increase in suicide
>>524043497no. do a basic ai scan. quit wasting time with slide threads.Recent academic textbooks and monographs (especially from Palgrave Macmillan and Routledge) frame the 1980s–1990s as the first “normie-friendly” wave of digital consumer technology, when computing and communication moved from institutions into everyday life. Texts like Philip Loubere’s A History of Communication Technology (Routledge, 2021) and Brian Winston’s Media Technology and Society are commonly used in courses to explain how pagers, early cellphones, fax machines, home computers with printers, satellite/cable TV, and camcorders altered social rhythms.Palgrave’s digital culture titles situate these devices within the consumerization of information: communication became mobile but still asynchronous (pagers, fax), work and home boundaries blurred, and expectations of availability increased without full internet connectivity. Early cellphones and PDAs normalized portable coordination, not constant presence. Home printers and PCs decentralized document production, shifting authority away from offices and institutions. Camcorders and expanded cable TV widened vernacular media production, changing memory, family life, and subculture visibility.Classic contemporaneous works like Negroponte’s Being Digital (1995) are often treated as primary sources showing how the period imagined digital life before the web. Overall, the scholarship emphasizes gradual social reorganization, not disruption: mobility without social media, digitization without platforms, and consumer tech that reshaped habits, time, and relationships long before smartphones or the internet dominated daily life.https://annas-archive.org/slow_download/ec6be0a21a3455c2c3ee48c2c16e391a/0/0
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>>524043497Who’s this she’s so hot
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>>524043895>12 year oldCertified unc status
>>524043497Computers were mostly word processors up until the late 90s or early 2000s. We had the internet but it was nothing compared to what it is now. Even as a research tool it was limited to the point that you'd have an encyclopedia program on your computer.Likewise cell phones were mostly for rich people up until the late 90s. At that point they caught on pretty quick and everyone had them although at this point they were just phones, you could communicate with them but that was it, some of them had cameras but they were absolutely pathetic.None of it had a big impact till around the year 2000. At that point most people had cellphones and the internet was starting to become a decent tool for research and communication even though video streaming was still a good ways out. Me and my friends used to use AOL instant messenger to chat with each other after school. It was great, I genuinely miss it. Your friends would log in, everyone could see who was online (unless you hid your online status) and you could talk to all your buddies. Nothing like it really exists now. I guess you have text messaging and group chats; but its not the same.
>>524043497Who was this? She was motherfucking cute
>>524044835Had a cell phone in 89 because>Zogbot with TS clearance>in Washington Degenerate CentralIt was needed
>>524048134Liz Phair
>>524048023>ad a big impact till around the year 2000. At that point most people had cellphones and the internet was starting to become a decent tool for research and communication even though video streaming was still a good ways out. Me and my friends used to use AOL instant messenger to chat with each other after school. It was great, I genuinely miss it. Your friends would log in, everyone could see who waI miss the days of AOL chatrooms and my lovely AOHell prog. I used to troll th fuck out of fag rooms and pedo rooms and then PUNT everyone out and close the rooms. Would do it for hours at a time and it was quite fulfilling greifing those degenerates.
>>524043497Genx here. Early computers were enthusiast things, to set up a modem and connect to bulletin boards you had to know what you were doing. Comms was sold as bringing us all together etc, but in reality its caused seperation and lonliness - back in the day you knocked on peoples doors or met up in the pub. Now i chat on here with faceless anons ill never meet.
>>524048778Yea, the 90's were the last great feeling decade. Still lots of fun and a carryover from the 80's with more hope and fun toys every couple months. I kinds had an inkling of what was coming but never could have imagined how badly the kikes would fuck up things as they are now. Back them I loved it all and enjoyed the ride. Now I loathe everything and hate the kikes with a burning passion because they took the truly good times away from us. We could till be having fun if it were not for these these inbred savage parasites with their baby cock sucking and tiny beanies.
