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British android with the purple halo, beams information into your mind.
In other things, Grocery stores used to be diverse with produce, and the British finally figured out they were being pounded into oblivion by artificial currency exchanges.
Reminds me what a boring, uneventful era I was born into, by the late 90s. Peaceful and unaware.
With the news of bubble popping tyrants buried into the far future. Past Invasions long forgotten.
The internet is not the same as it was then, there are different versions of the internet based on the available technology in each era. If the technological progress would have stopped in the 90s, then it is likely that the internet would remain in use only for bulk data transfer (archives, books, movies, etc…), and for the technical experts who needed the higher grade ‘calculators’ for their work.
The technological advance from achieving mechanized flight in the early 1900s, to the post-WW2 arsenals, and technological stockpiled innovations, was way more impressive IMO.
We went from just barely achieving flight, to sending rockets into the upper atmosphere and building jet fighters in just 4 decades.
Maybe people (USA) do not want to hear this, but the foreign brain drain is petering out. I heard that a lot of eastern Europeans helped work on technology in silicon valley in the 90s onward, and I am not sure if that is still ongoing or even significant/true. But for every era of progress, there is also an era of decline; and you won’t have a healthy regenerating forest without winter to renew the trees via stasis.
As for the early 2000s internet, does anyone else remember the dial-up helicopter. Not knowing any better as a kid, I thought (at first) that we were being attacked by someone when the helicopter dialed-in, within our dining room. Knock it up a few decibels and you could put it in as a sound effect in a war movie.
I think it must be my 20yr anniversary coming here or there abouts.
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