The part this thread seems to be missing is that like we didn’t have much internet back then.

Sure you didn’t have it in your pocket, but also most people didn’t have it in their house either. And if you did you had to dial with a phone line (which is a thing attached to a wall) and make it so you couldn’t get any calls while you were doing it.

And it would take like 41 seconds for a grainy picture of a banana to roll in from top to bottom. And you’d get disconnected and lose your cart. And so on.

It was different back then.