Me in 1996 in a friends rented a mid-city apartment which had become for sale – “Buying this would be ridiculous, apartment prices here are as high as they are ever going to be“.
I have since seen apartments in same building being sold for 6-7 times the price they were asking.
That car facing me on the opposite side of the road is indicating to turn right and has come to a standstill waiting for me pass before he turns into the side road…………
…. followed by at about 10 feet between us…..
…a rev of the engine a squeal of tyre ……and I have T-boned him at 20 mph. ****er.
Me, the first time I saw the internet through a browser – like you are doing now, rather than the text command line – I said there was little use or purpose for it as it was nothing but an online Yellow Pages* showing adverts. This was before web pages were much more than a collage of static images and text but still…
*Our younger viewers may need to Google Yellow Pages to understand the reference