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    2 days ago

    No, it’s that 1998 is so far before they were born that they blurred it with other “recognizably modern but fundamentally outdated” time periods.

    A world where cell phones were not common, only 20% of homes had Internet, social media didn’t exist yet and mass media in general was far more homogeneous is as different from now to a child of today as the 1940s.