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I love some misconceptions about technology or the way of living in the 80s / 90s.

An anecdote I love is a young scholar asking his teacher:

Before you had internet, how did you access Wikipedia?

A friend's young son asked him how people got online back in the days before computers were invented.

"About sixty years ago, there were only about seven different web sites, and none of them had any user interaction or even navigation. They just autoplayed the same scheduled streamed video to everyone who looked at them, all the time, like a YouTube autoplay you can't turn off. If you wanted to talk to the YTer, you'd have to do a realtime voice chat, or send them a DM on a piece of paper, and they usually wouldn't even answer. There were also podcasts - more of them than websites - and these were mostly also only sent once and couldn't be listened to again. If you tried to voicechat the podcasts, they would often respond, and might even talk to you live on the podcast. Since there were so few podcasts you'd probably listen to the same ones as your friends, so there was a chance they'd even hear you talking on the podcast."

I think the amazing part was that those seven different websites were delivered via Wi-Fi in most cities in the country. Your rich friends may have paid for a wired upgrade that gave them like 40 more websites, but the WiFi version was free for everyone.

And remember when they enabled the ability to save those podcasts so you could listen to them offline? Game changer.

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