Moreover, content-wise, you couldn't leapfrog very far or very fast from wherever you started, and there was a limit to the depth and nichiness of what you were likely to find; back then, we had not yet paved the road between, say, Dorothy Hamill and a comprehensive list of Beaux-Arts structures in Manhattan, nor archived for the convenience of humankind ten thousand photographs of fingernail art.
It made sense to predict negative outcomes because they happened to be the most likely outcomes way back then.
It looks a little like how some of us might have imagined we'd be navigating the Internet in general by now, asked to picture what computing would be like in 15 years time back in 1998, but actually much more intuitive and natural-looking than anything we likely would've conceived of back then.
I think that, instead, the people protesting now were most likely the ones not protesting back then.
Breakfast was a slice of apple pie and a few glasses of ale or hard cider, since water back then most likely gave you the shits.
But the character you played as on Street Fighter II, back then, is likely the same one you first select when firing up 2016's Street Fighter V, assuming they're available.
If you hadn't heard of Vice media back then, it is likely that now you have.
As a cheap bar snack, they handed out fried squid, which back then was more likely to be found on the end of a hook than the end of a fork, along with Helen Randazzo's long-simmered Sauce.
There is so much hot loneliness in high school that if I'd had a phone back then, I'd likely have melted into it completely to avoid my feelings.
After all, residents were more likely to die of disease than gunfire back then.
Back then, the officers were likely to be white and at the command of a racial dictatorship.
