It still blows my mind how ubiquitous communication is now. I just had someone message me instantly from a ship in the Mediterranean, while I'm on a flight in the US.
Even less than a 150 years ago that would have been impossible. And prior to that communication among normal people could take months.
10 years ago was 2015. In-flight wifi was definitely already a thing. I just pulled this from an old email.
Enjoy 20 live TV channels and a wide array of on demand TV options as well as other services including WiFi connectivity, messaging, and movies!
This is from Southwest Airlines from 2014.
Actually ten years ago was 2016 and public WiFi absolutely sucked ten years ago.
Look I said 10 years ago it would have been rare but you certainly don’t need to go back 150 years.
It wouldn’t have been rare at all because it wasn’t rare.
Yes, you wouldn’t be video chatting (and still shouldn’t be… it is a plane for crying out loud). But emails were 100% a thing and I had plenty of gchat conversations with colleagues that included the phrase “We are about to land, Ill get back to you when I am at my hotel”.
Yeah people are talking like 2016 was 2006.
Like remember how much better Skype was in 2012 than any of the crap we have now?
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