Co-Host: Emily McKay - X & Y Communications
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25 years and one week ago, everyone’s attention was on whether or not the dreaded Y2K bug was going to crash the world’s computer systems and make planes fall out of the sky. And even as we partied like it was 1999, nobody’s nose was buried in their smartphone because those hadn’t come out yet.
People weren’t even texting each other. After all, if on the off chance you had texting on your phone, every message cost like sixty cents. Online dating was in its infancy, but already stigmatized as if any users were desperate losers who ‘liked pina coladas’.
Indeed, if a guy wanted to ask a woman out the best way to do that was in person (go figure) because picking up the phone and being confronted with an answering machine was just too stressful. But at least actual dating was still a thing rather than simply ‘hooking up’ or ‘hanging out’.
Nevertheless, getting quality dating advice from, well…anywhere? Forgettaboutit. Self-help of any kind on the still narrowband Internet was practically unheard of. Even what would become the PUA movement was still limited to ‘underground’ keyboard jockeys in chat rooms (!) trying to figure out tricks to ‘game’ women with.
Social media was years away, and with it the rise of ‘echo chambers’ that would shape public opinion (and outrage) on all manner of ways men and women relate to each other. And yes, people were terrified of getting herpes and dying of AIDS, so sexual activity was approached very differently than it is today. Y
es, a LOT has changed over the first quarter of the 21st century, and we cover the good, the bad and the ugly in this fast-paced and (actually) fun episode!
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