>>46861656When I say I feel old, I mean that I remember something from over half my life ago feeling modern, like I was in the future. Now it's quaint by today's standards. Like the feeling of seeing an HDTV for the first time in person after watching a CRT for your entire life is something that will stand out to you. It's something you'll remember as feeling futuristic and beyond your reach, and now we scoff at 720p.
One of the things I thought seemed incredible as a kid was TiVo. It blew my mind that you could just go back and rewatch something that you had just watched. I used to fantasize about all the anime scenes I could immediately rewatch at my leisure instead of having to wait for a rerun or setting the VCR to record over a blank VHS in advance. I didn't have it, but over time, all cable boxes just kind of ended up like that without me even realizing. YouTube used to be a miracle concept to me in 2005. Imagine just searching up an episode of The Simpsons or whatever to watch on demand. Man, even switching from AOL dial-up internet to broadband Internet Explorer felt amazing.
It's just fascinating to think about how the internet and digital technology so vastly changed the course of human history. We experienced leaps and bounds at the end of the 20th century, and it's scary to imagine just how a few decades could lead to such change. All this stuff happened while we were there, and it's almost worrisome to think about how fleeting some of these major events are, how quickly it can feel like life passes you by.
