This is the correct answer.

Hmm. You forgot that some are also above waist level.

VT100 terminals on Solaris (SunOS) reading usenet, chatting with ytalk, elm (email), Gopher (and searching Gopher with Archie), DartMUD. It was great. Pretty much once we got PC and Mac based clients that stitched together downloads out of usenet posts and could run multiple terminal sessions at once, we were set and the Internet peaked.

How were they going to get the government subsidies and tax breaks if it was simple and didn’t take a whole nuclear plant to run it?

Wasn’t there a Uni project a few years back trying to summarize key civilization building concepts - like basic agriculture, tool making, shelter making, that sort of thing. Because whatever society described by OP is going to have serious problems.

Also data rules / data privacy. Some things need to have the original in Europe; China & Russia also need their data separated from others.

Amazon is just Wish but more expensive. But even if you go to Best Buy or Microcenter, you can still end up with the same rebranded crap.

I had a new employee ask me what I meant when I used the word directory. They had never heard ‘directory’ used in that context. It has only been known as a folder to some people.