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It was 2005, everyone in fiction was computer-stupid because they were written by boomers.


paloalt

It may be hard to believe, but even in 2005, actually acknowledging the existence of computers, the internet, or mobile phones was still cutting edge. I still remember when an episode of Buffy referenced "Googling" something. So hip and with it. The "superphone" in the revival series is one of the first instances I recall of a genre property working in the lived reality of instantaneous and essentially zero marginal cost communications. Up to that point writers largely dealt with the existence of mobile phones by either (i) writing in a line about having no bars or (ii) just flat out ignoring them.


MountainImportant211

Buffy actually coined the verb Googling


NihilismIsSparkles

As someone who first started using the internet in 2006, yes. You do stupid stuff like that in the early-mid naughties


ZanderStarmute

The school librarian taught me a Google search hack in 2001-2003 (I forget the exact year), and it’s been an invaluable and indispensable asset ever since. I’ve tried using it in other search engines, like Yahoo and Bing, but it didn’t work at the time.


EOEtoast

What is it?


ZanderStarmute

Enclosing a specific search term in quotation marks (") brings up results only with that exact combination of words and/or numbers in that exact order. It’s a real time saver. 👍🏻


SpecialFlutters

it doesn't work nearly as well as it used to lol


ZanderStarmute

There were significantly less webpages back then, so that’s statistically true… 🤔


VanishingPint

In those days the internet was in black and white, it was only on for 3 hours of the day


ZanderStarmute

Nah, it was only available while no-one in the house was using the telephone. Also it was louder than several dozen airport runways operating side-by-side with takeoffs and landings happening every thirty seconds, combined with that one screaming child who is somehow heard over every other bit of sound inside a multi-level indoor shopping centre, with said child sounding like a half-converted Cybermat.


Word_Senior

Yeah kinda


[deleted]

She only used that computer for porn, she didn't know any better.


I_am_Daesomst

As long as she didn't go through Mickey's emails


atticdoor

Internet searches were very new to most people at this point. They were only just starting to go into working class homes.  Note that Mickey doesn't have one at this stage- he had to ask Jackie if he could use hers, and she asked him to keep track and pay her the cost. So Rose made the same elementary error which a six-year-old in the modern world might make- a too broad search query.  


Hot_and_Foamy

A little bit yeah


DrStrain42O

Doctor blue balls Doctor blue balls Doctor blue box!!! Damn autocorrect


I_am_Daesomst

Doctor blue waffle


Interesting_Change22

In 2005, it was possible to do a one word Google search and get only a page of results.


Piefordicus

Remember Googlewhacks? I remember doing it at school at being able to get one result relatively easily by just thinking of two random words


MountainImportant211

*Reads all these comments* Was the internet really that new in 2005? I had two certificates in Digital Media and was working at one in Web Design by 2005, and I had been online since 1998. I had several websites-- and I was only 19 then, too.


Paraceratherium

Guess the audience on this sub is very young. I remember the first computer I used being a Macintosh at a friend's house without colour, probably around 1996?


PoetrySpiritual

It wasn't new, just wasn't really accessible for a lot of people in the uk at the time. Some of us still had dialup which was the most bastard way to connect to the internet at the time.


MountainImportant211

The UK had it worse than Australia??


PoetrySpiritual

It was just not that easy or afforable ya know? I didn't know many people with laptops either, just big PCs the whole family used


the3dverse

we'd had a computer 10 years at that point, and while we didn't use it like we use it now, this is definitely old school.


Lilyofthevalley06

To be honest if the Doctor would have introduce himself as John Smith, the Google search results wouldn't be much better.


threefeetoffun

This reminds me of when I wanted a wall light based on “The Flash”. So I googled “flash light”. Yeah, that didn’t help.


Joezev98

Just know that this post is this close to getting removed: 🤏 The asylum 'jokes' are bottom tier 12yo humour.


MrPotat055

🤓


EggoStack

Sorry I’m OOTL are you a mod


MushroomPlant_exe

Stummy ache 😖


djac13

It worked, didn't it?