re: #58 The Vicious Babushka

“Back to the Future II” totally missed smartphones and The Internet

To be fair, back in 1989, cellphones were as rare as hens teeth in the US. The majority of those who owned them either were rich or worked for people who were. I remember when car phones were a big item for the well-to-do, the idea that you could make a phone call from virtually anywhere. Touchscreens were only starting to make the transition from labs to stores, computers smaller than a briefcase-sized laptop were still a pipedream, and the Internet was the realm of college students and government labs.