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[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not even 20 years ago smart phones and the internet weren't ubiquitous. I'm only 35 but even I remember personal stories about bar disagreements where we just simply couldn't use our phones to search the net. Because all they were capable of is dialing a number and Snake.

[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I'm around the same age and I'm pretty sure we had Google on our phones by the time we could drink. That was the in between time where they still had buttons, but they had browsers and colorful screens. First iPhone released in 07. We were pretty much the first ones to have 'smartish' phones, though, so some people definitely still had snake bricks.

I think most people also still weren't used to having the world's knowledge in their pockets and would forget that Google was even there, too. It's crazy how easily urban legends and false rumors spread around back then, before everybody knew how to fact check. I remember some particularly interesting ones about Marilyn Manson and Lil Bow Wow.

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

In many European countries the drinking age is 18 and in some the drinking age for beer and wine is 16. So we could be talking about as early as 2004.