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Sure, I get nostalgic for the 90s, but we couldn't have imagined what the Internet would become.
There may have been less political drama back then (A consensual blowjob was as bad as it got around here) but I wouldn't trade being able to run my life from my phone and the availability of knowledge and media that we have now.
I think that by the late 1990s, in the US, you probably had people with a vision of something that looked kind of like the current Internet and computing environment. The major devices were in place. We had commercial companies online (even if the presence was vastly lower), cell phone network in place, laptops, 3d hardware in computers, LCD displays, touchscreens, fiber-optic cables. People were carrying battery-powered gadgets. 802.11b, early WiFi was out. It wasn't quite there yet, but I think that someone following the technology could probably have done a reasonable job of projecting forward.
IIRC, one big worry then was that some company might manage to monopolize it successfully. Sort of be more like the telephone network than the Internet of today.
Oh, no doubt. We all had dreams of what it would turn into and what we'd be able to do with it. Still can't download cake, but we did accomplish a lot of other unexpected things. It was mostly hyperbole.