nsxwolf pointed out that WebTv was something I&#x27;ve never heard about [0]. I guess we didn&#x27;t get web on the tv so much as tv on the web. I&#x27;m guessing the original purpose was to give more people access to the web and that as such is fairly solved by phones. I have a hard time being upset over &quot;they promised us WebTv, but all we got were internet access everywhere&quot;.<p>I think VR was both in the 90s. In large part VR was an interface to getting access to another world. A lot of it stemmed from things like neuromancer for example which isn&#x27;t really natural world. It wasn&#x27;t necessarily how realistic a flight simulator is. HTC Vive is quite interesting hese days with the room concept.<p>It&#x27;s hard to argue perception of the past though. I&#x27;m just saying that plenty of things that are commonplace today, like kids playing (as in the traditional sense of the word) together online, would be science fiction in the 90s.<p>Regards to timing, I don&#x27;t think it is unexpected that technology takes a few, or even many, years to live up to expectations. A smartphone is way more like a PDA than it is an early cellphone.<p>In the end I think the most important part is just having more qualified discussions about these things. We know self-driving cars are going to be a thing and internet connected devices and digital currency, in which capacity it can, should and will be is the interesting part.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;MSN_TV" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;MSN_TV</a>