i would place the old/new internet divide on the commercialization of smartphones. Not on the user age but how we got online. Internaut profile too has changed from people who work with computers + gamers to anybody
i would say it was social media that really kicked off smartphones. The concept of being to communicate on a platform like myspace, but on a phone, and from anywhere, was truly revolutionary. It was a cyclical process, much like it is today.
Otherwise a smartphone is just a fancy flip phone, which is what people were primarily using back then anyway. Until something gave the smartphone a reason to exist, nobody needed one, i would argue it’s primarily social media that was that factor.
i would place the old/new internet divide on the commercialization of smartphones. Not on the user age but how we got online. Internaut profile too has changed from people who work with computers + gamers to anybody
Smartphones changed the internet after 2007
i’d say it’s the rise of social media, in this specific context at least.
it’s the smartphones that rose social media
when people started posting while waiting for their shit to come out, shit started oozing on these lines too
excuse my misanthropic moment here
i would say it was social media that really kicked off smartphones. The concept of being to communicate on a platform like myspace, but on a phone, and from anywhere, was truly revolutionary. It was a cyclical process, much like it is today.
Otherwise a smartphone is just a fancy flip phone, which is what people were primarily using back then anyway. Until something gave the smartphone a reason to exist, nobody needed one, i would argue it’s primarily social media that was that factor.