"You've got mail" (1998) - AOL dialup and typewriters

[underpants]

I was just flipping around while we came inside for lunch.

1998????? really? only 12 years ago?

Wow I would have guessed that it was the EARLY 90's

The mom-and-pop store versus the "big box" stores just emerging is part of the story too

Wow 12 years ago.

Oh and there was a "cash only" line at the grocery store (the cashier was Sara Ramirez from Grey's Anatomy)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128853/

and Dave Chappelle

[pokerfan]

1. The script probably bounced around Hollywood for a number of years

By 1995, I had changed to dial-up internet. Remember Trumpet Winsock?

[underpants]

8. Well the script certainly took long enough to get to the damned point

That movie draaaaagged on - they clearly didn't have a full movie there so they just prolonged and prolonged it until ZIP it was over.

[surrealAmerican]

2. Typewriters were already an anachronism ten years before that.

That's probably why they used them in this movie, to make a point about some people being very "old fashioned".

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Not hard to believe. My first internet connected computer was purchased in 1998.

I still remember talking about the NBA Finals between the Jazz and Bulls in the Yahoo! NBA chat rooms.

12 years doesn't feel like a long time, but it is. Especially in terms of technological development. I mean, think of 12 years prior to 1998. That would have been 1986. At that time, hardly anyone owned a personal computer and only established university libraries, the government and some connected nerds were even connected to the internet.

So in 12 years the population went from not having computers & internet to having computers and dial-up. Then 12 years later, we've moved on to DSL and cable.

Not that different, eh?

So that begs the question: What will the net be like in 2022?

[underpants]

9. I think mine was too

hell I never touched a computer until I went back to school in 1994.

in 2022 some people will have glasses on (like that character in the second Star Trek series) with a "vision app" as well as streaming video (read: porn) twitter updates and bluetooth communications and an email inbox all occupying their attention .....sort of like Iron Man's helmet (without the porn)

[Roon]

10. The next generation of Internet will be called "the grid"

You can download a full movie in 7 seconds,and we will start getting Internet through our powerlines.

[Taverner]

4. TPTB would never allow a plot about the mom and pop v big box until '98

Just the way it was...

[pink-o]

5. I didn't go online till 2000

Yet it feels like I've been here all my life. And my first computer was 56K dialup which I had till about 2003.

First cell phone was 2001. Also impossible to remember life without it.

As much as we hated the Aughts of this century for Bush/Cheney, Iraq War, Katrina, et al, the technology has just been da bomb!!!

[CBGLuthier]

6. and the whole thing is a remake of The Shop Around the Corner

a 1940 movie set in Budapest.

[underpants]

7. Oh, thus the sign

just like Sleepless was a remake of An Affair to Remember