I remember when I was your age, we had dial up internets

Technology is sometimes an annoyance and sometimes a vast expanding way to connect and simplify everyone’s lives, depending on who and the situation. The progression of technologies before computers and the obvious, complimentary invention of the internet worked in a very similar way. Said progression seems to be like this, in a more technological determinism way of viewing it, people have needs, people dream up ways to meet needs, people hire nerds to make dreams happen, and finally dreams become reality. The argument that something like this is inevitable, social constructionism, is understandable, but is also guaranteed to never be proven. Computers and the internet are links much like television, radio, and telegraphy were and still are links between people. Human beings are social beings and that means it makes perfect sense that they are going to use their imaginations and engineering ability (in whichever order) to find ways to bridge gaps between themselves and others, whether the reason is to communicate news within a corporation or to find a way to tell someone you miss them.