I remember quite the opposite, but could be wrong.
At least there was a lot of hope that digitizing a lot of things would be faster and more convenient.
Perhaps secretaries, postal workers, and travel agents should have been worried but I think most industries did not see the Internet as a threat.
Waiting weeks for mail order items or using a paper card catalog in a library weren’t fun.
At the same time, I don’t think people were expecting shopping malls to decline as they have. Buying shoes and clothes online would have seemed absurd.
In the movie “the Net”, the idea of ordering food delivery over the Internet seemed a bit far fetched at the time — it was very early days for online commerce.
At least there was a lot of hope that digitizing a lot of things would be faster and more convenient.
Perhaps secretaries, postal workers, and travel agents should have been worried but I think most industries did not see the Internet as a threat.
Waiting weeks for mail order items or using a paper card catalog in a library weren’t fun.
At the same time, I don’t think people were expecting shopping malls to decline as they have. Buying shoes and clothes online would have seemed absurd.
In the movie “the Net”, the idea of ordering food delivery over the Internet seemed a bit far fetched at the time — it was very early days for online commerce.