Comments by "HKim0072" (@HKim0072) on "Neo vs Agent Smith | The Matrix [Open Matte]" video.

People have to remember that we only had the internet for a few years when this movie came out. This movie was mind blowing for many of us.
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@flippedoutcookie Do you realize they were charging hourly rates before AOL? It was 2x the federal minimum wage. AOL's monthly fee was a game changer for the middle class. (You still needed to buy a second hardline or you couldn't receive phone calls.) I remember doing BBS stuff in 4th grade. There wasn't much to connect to.
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@jd0879 JFC. No sane person would consider ARPANET the internet. The modern internet with http and url didn't launch until 1989. It's like people talking about the internet don't know how to use...the internet to find correct information.
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@foxskyful When 9-11 happened, the whole internet crashed. People were trying to refresh news pages. It took literally minutes to reload. Also in the 2000s, we had limited network space at work. I think my capacity was 100MB in the beginning. No, not GB. MB.
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@jd0879 Dude - I could say the exact same thing back to you. Spoken like a true millennial that didn't live through it. I used BBS back in the mid-80s as an elementary school kid. Learned BASIC programming in the 5th and 6th grade at a community college and a G&T summer camp program. There was literally nothing an average person could do with it though. As a middle class suburban kid, we used our Commodore 64 and later Apple II (my friends computers) to play video games. My sister's boyfriend in the mid-90s was the first to get internet service. It was Prodigy or Compuserve. But, you couldn't use it because it was an astronomical per hour charge. No one had email accounts until AOL starting giving out their free disk and a flat monthly charge.
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@sheezy2526 As a son of a middle school English teacher, I was likely in the top 1% of well read kids growing up. My parents didn't allow us to watch TV or go out on school nights. There was nothing to do, but read books with no TV or internet.
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