She’s using a camera on her cell phone to boast about her ice cream on a newsgroup. Waxing upper lips has gone out of fashion but she’s self-conscious about it.
“She’s taking a picture of the ice cream”
Time traveller: Ok
Unpaid Freelance worker creates more training data for AI, probably in Japan, where mask-wearing is normal when you have a cold.
easy.
So, the internet took off. This lady is putting a picture of her food on her personal website. There is a respiratory disease pandemic so people are wearing masks for public health safety measures.
Lol, it’s not that crazy. The 90s has both internet and masks.
Fun fact: icecream didn’t exist in the 90s. The concept of ‘cold’ was alien to them.
Ice cream was invented by John Scream in 2003 when some cold milk got into his eye by accident
WTF is a lady??? 🤯
Maybe throw in a bit about how cell phones are flat rectangles which are ubiquitous and have both internet access and built in cameras.
Yeah, cell phones had internet in the 90’s as well.
What cell phones had internet in the 90s? Keep in mind, the Nokia brick in the early 00s is like an eidetic memory for most millennials today.
They did, but it was very slow. Picture messaging was also a thing, but may have been early 2000s. There wasn’t much to browse on the mobile web…basic weather and news etc. Usually it was the network operator but there were offerings from yahoo and similar.
Well WAP and I-mode were both introduced in 1999 and didn’t go mainstream till 2000. So I don’t think any phone had internet access in the 90s. Even in 2000 most people had a Nokia 3210 or similar, a lot of people still had screens that could only display 2 lines of text at most.
The Nokia 7110 was the first, launched Oct 1999.
Yes, looks like first rollout was end of 99. So technically correct, which is the best kind.
However, it was not groundbreaking and the point is that someone in the 90s would not be shocked by internet connected devices. If I recall, some sites also allowed you to blog online by sms. I’m fuzzy on the details and the timeline on that though.
The first wireless Internet access became available in 1991 as part of the second generation (2G) of mobile phone technology.
But machines that could use it were not the size of a mobile phone yet
Well technically yes, CSD was a thing and allowed mobile phones to connect to the internet. However it wasn’t like these days, where you could actually use the internet on the phone. It was a technology that allowed mobile phones to work as a modem. So you’d connect the phone to the serial port of your 90s laptop and could “dial in”. The data rate was terrible as well as the latency, but it could allow salespeople on the road to digitally submit orders to the head office for example. This was technically internet, but usually people dialed in to a specific number which only connected to the one server/service. It was also super expensive to do so, so adoption was low.
Internet on mobile phones first started with WAP and I-mode, which are close to internet and technically use the internet, but still isn’t the same as what we have these days.
The first mobile pocket devices which could actually browse the internet in a modern way were probably pocket pc’s. Especially the Windows Mobile ones that came with a (for the time) very capable browser. They exploded in popularity and soon became available for phones as well. Yes there was a time Microsoft dominated the mobile phone market and caused the juggernaut Nokia to fall. They then completely dropped the ball when they didn’t realize they were actually marketing to consumers instead of business and failed to innovate in ways that were more user friendly. Instead focusing on productivity and technical capabilities. Blackberry and Apple swooped in and the rest is history.
They would probably think taking pictures of food was the coolest thing too
Ah yes, things people weren’t aware of in the 90s: masks, respiratory illness, mobile phones, cameras, and ice cream.
Granted that exact form factor of combination phone/camera is novel but come on.
Yeah all these concepts would be fairly easy to explain to someone from 100 years ago. Sure they would be amazed of how much more compact and affordable modern photography had gotten, but the concept is unchanged. Icecream is nothing new, masks are nothing new.
Until the very late 90’s you might have to explain the concept of a digital camera. Sony introduced their first Mavica digital camera in 1997 and it took awhile for the tech to catch on with the general public.
That’s mostly because digital cameras were known at the time to be extremely shit. I remember having a webcam in the 90s. It kinda sorta worked, but even in high res picture mode it was 640x480 and the images looked like shit. So it would be more a case of convincing people a digital camera can be as good as an old school one. The concept itself would be familiar. In fact, calling it a webcam instead of a digital camera would be a lot easier for a 90s person to understand.
I’d think a time traveller from the 90s would have a decent concept of technology considering at the minimum they’ve learnt to operate a time machine.
This woman is using her standard-issue hand-held matter replicator to fabricate an ice cream cone in her hand. How hard was that?
I swear some sci-fi is like this…
30 years into the future: autopilot flying antimatter powered laser cars deliver ice cream created by matter replicators! Personal AGI enabled robotic assistants do everything for us! Special ships warp space to travel infinite distances instantly!
Reality: 30 years into the future we still haven’t learned to stop picking our noses. We still eat plastic. Our cars have “autopilot” and crash into each other.
That’s a cellular PDA, and we had a plague so folks are now mask conscience to some degree. Also a bunch of dipshits had their brains melted by the internet and now are causing massive problems, also memes are the DNA of the soul.
SARS outbreak was in 2002 so it’s not really old concept for the 90s
You’re not wrong. But if someone time travels from the 90s then 2002 is still a future they haven’t seen yet.
SARS was bad, but not anywhere close to COVID bad. We’re coming up on the sixth anniversary of COVID and there are still people dying every day from it.
Also, someone from the 1990s being transported to 2002 would probably be more interested in a very different event that occurred less than a year before.
The debut of Shrek?
Engagement bait
General over use of acetaminophen, contrary to the common belief that it caused autism, made humans allergic to consuming animal milk products (lactose intolerance). However, more than just giving one gas, consuming dairy products now results in death.
Our great world leader, Elon, felt pitty on us and provided us all with Neurochips, which allows us to synthetically taste dairy once again after a quick image scan.
This woman exhibts caution by covering her mouth and nose and enjoys a timeless vanilla ice cream.
A rare sample of the output of a working ice cream machine at Macca’s.
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Camera…phone!!!
Easy, I show them up this clip: youtu.be/9hYjzF3OJyM?t=67
