In case it still doesn’t occur to you, I pointed out that I’d been in the computer business for a number of years already by then to illustrate that I’d already been selling laptops for years to people who intended to use them in school prior to 2003.
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make.
WiFi is in no way necessary to take notes, write papers, etcetera.
College is certainly included in the definition of “school” so that seems a silly separation to try and make.
Cell phones and smart phones in particular are irrelevant to anything I said.
Do you have a point or are you just trying to disagree with me?
I don’t know how old you are but I lived through a completely different experience than you…
I’d been selling and repairing computers for 6+ years by 2003 and had been in the workforce many years before that. I can assure you people were definitely using laptops in schools (as I sold them to them)… Maybe not as ubiquitously as they do now but it was already quite common.
I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree on how much things have changed since then … Now, if you want to go back 30 or 40 years then I can definitely agree we’ve seen some significant changes.
Hell, the first time I flew out of the country I didn’t even need photo ID much less a passport.
I think basically every single top level comment has zero understanding of what a short time 20 years actually is.
I also expect almost everything that is acceptable today will also still be in 20 years, including nearly every example suggested in this discussion.
The world simply does not change that fast as a general rule.
Look… All I have to say is… Support the Internet Archive!
(please)