I agree with this statement. I was a heavy user of "Redditisfun" app for ten years. The amount of reading and learning was a lot. But ever since they killed 3rd party apps I haven't use Reddit, the original app is unbearable. And I feel like I'm getting dumber as I don't exercise that access to information enough now. I've just made a Lemmy account and trying to find my supply here, so far so good :)
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I'm so old I remember using an ancient encyclopedia to research space for a school project, where it had illustrations about what they thought colonies on Mars would look like in 1985.
Must have been back when the only way online was by having access at university.
The civilian internet was originally a tool for universities to communicate. It spread from there.
I remember my dad telling me he had inter-office emails at work in the mid 1980s
The tipping point was when smart phones with inexpensive internet access became common. Before that, the least intellectually curious among us rarely had computers or internet.
I'm not saying that everyone was smart on the internet back then, but when you have to be somewhat enthusiastic to even figure out the internet, owning a computer and troubleshoot it. Now all you have to do is clicking on a symbol on any phone.
I'm so old that I remember when Usenet said that eating the Americium sensor inside fire detectors could give you psychic powers. The Internet has always been a place where you need a big grain of salt for everything.