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I’d think a time traveller from the 90s would have a decent concept of technology considering at the minimum they’ve learnt to operate a time machine.
She’s using a camera on her cell phone to boast about her ice cream on a newsgroup. Waxing upper lips has gone out of fashion but she’s self-conscious about it.
I’m sure I’d be able to find someone in the 90’s who had seen a cyberpunk movie to make it easy to understand.
They had cameras in the 90s. It wasn’t the dark ages
Even the Gameboy had a camera.
A rare sample of the output of a working ice cream machine at Macca’s.
Not really related, but if you’re hankering for a soft serve, I highly recommend heading to your local GYG instead of Maccas. Their machines aren’t more reliable, but their soft serves are so much nicer. Thicker, creamier soft serve than Maccas offers.
That’s a cellular PDA, and we had a plague so folks are now mask conscience to some degree. Also a bunch of dipshits had their brains melted by the internet and now are causing massive problems, also memes are the DNA of the soul.
General over use of acetaminophen, contrary to the common belief that it caused autism, made humans allergic to consuming animal milk products (lactose intolerance). However, more than just giving one gas, consuming dairy products now results in death.
Our great world leader, Elon, felt pitty on us and provided us all with Neurochips, which allows us to synthetically taste dairy once again after a quick image scan.
This woman exhibts caution by covering her mouth and nose and enjoys a timeless vanilla ice cream.
“She’s taking a picture of the ice cream”
Time traveller: Ok
SARS outbreak was in 2002 so it’s not really old concept for the 90s
You’re not wrong. But if someone time travels from the 90s then 2002 is still a future they haven’t seen yet.
SARS was bad, but not anywhere close to COVID bad. We’re coming up on the sixth anniversary of COVID and there are still people dying every day from it.
Also, someone from the 1990s being transported to 2002 would probably be more interested in a very different event that occurred less than a year before.
The debut of Shrek?
Asians were wearing masks in public for the common cold long before today’s other outbreaks.
This woman is using her standard-issue hand-held matter replicator to fabricate an ice cream cone in her hand. How hard was that?
I swear some sci-fi is like this…
30 years into the future: autopilot flying antimatter powered laser cars deliver ice cream created by matter replicators! Personal AGI enabled robotic assistants do everything for us! Special ships warp space to travel infinite distances instantly!
Reality: 30 years into the future we still haven’t learned to stop picking our noses. We still eat plastic. Our cars have “autopilot” and crash into each other.
Unpaid Freelance worker creates more training data for AI, probably in Japan, where mask-wearing is normal when you have a cold.
easy.
We got ‘taste masks’ now that can simulate eating any delicacy, even in slow motion, without a single calorie to burn afterwards. You just scan the food with this wireless scanner.
Ah yes, things people weren’t aware of in the 90s: masks, respiratory illness, mobile phones, cameras, and ice cream.
Granted that exact form factor of combination phone/camera is novel but come on.
Yeah all these concepts would be fairly easy to explain to someone from 100 years ago. Sure they would be amazed of how much more compact and affordable modern photography had gotten, but the concept is unchanged. Icecream is nothing new, masks are nothing new.
Until the very late 90’s you might have to explain the concept of a digital camera. Sony introduced their first Mavica digital camera in 1997 and it took awhile for the tech to catch on with the general public.
That’s mostly because digital cameras were known at the time to be extremely shit. I remember having a webcam in the 90s. It kinda sorta worked, but even in high res picture mode is was 640x480 and the images looked like shit. So it would be more a case of convincing people a digital camera can be as good as an old school one. The concept itself would be familiar. In fact, calling it a webcam instead of a digital camera would be a lot easier for a 90s person to understand.
webcam? 90s? how the T1 fuck did you find the bandwidth
Take a single 640x480 jpeg and spend a minute and a half uploading it to Geocities.
I guess the assumption is the time traveler from the 90’s is sentinelese
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