Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part II

[bigdamnprincipal]

Throughout the lawn, tables and chairs had been set up and scattered, some out in the bright, sunny center of everything, and some in the darker, more remote areas.

Eat up, folks! Don't let that food go to waste!

[OCD up! This is the picnic post for general mingling. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[spin_kick_snap]

"It's not bad, exactly?" Kathy said with a shrug. "It's just...okay, how to put this?" She paused, trying to figure out why she was so unsettled. "So the people who are from the 19th Century are obviously out of their time. Everything about them is different, from technology to social mores. You look at a picture of a street from 1814 and 2014 and it's painfully obvious that they're different times. But 1996 is pretty close to us, timewise, it's hard to see the difference in a picture. But...the technology it used is still really obsolete. It's only a twenty year time gap, but that twenty years was huge. So it's both just familiar enough and not familiar at all. It's like the uncanny valley, but about a time period."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

"Well, but technology goes obsolete pretty quickly," Joker countered. "I mean, in a general sense. Stuff from twenty years ago is always bigger, clunkier, less impressive. I mean, it's not like there was some groundbreaking, paradigm-shifting technology that... ohhhh, shit, when was the Internet?!"

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2014]

[spin_kick_snap]

"That's what I asked!" Kathy said, glad he was getting it. "I guess right around 1996 is when it went public. But even then, it didn't really get to be mainstream the way it is now until the turn of the millennium. This is before wifi! Like, you needed a phone with AOL or something! Hotmail is still relevant!"