The Internet started coming into common use in 1994 when the first Windows operating system was created and joined with the first Hard Drive computers that were economically priced.
By the year 2000, personal computers, PCs, were almost as common as TV sets in homes, and global communication and exchange of goods and some services was available through Internet commerce.
At the same time, Cell Phone technology had advanced beyond the bulky and expensive bag phones, and little flip phones that could be carried in a pocket were becoming common.
These two inventions catapulted human society out of thinking in local terms and into thinking in global terms, and the result has been catastrophic for past social traditions and values. It’s out of this that Communism has grown so rapidly, and BLM, Antifa, riots, mass migrations, the Covid lockdowns and the destruction of democratic ways of life have all come about. Globalists became billionaires because of the Internet and used the money to buy up all the TV stations. With their ownership of the social media as well, they now control what people are told more than the governments can do.
Mass instant global communication has been a huge benefit to humanity but like everything else we do that brings change, we always manage to find ways to make everything worse at the same time. There are always those among us who seek more power for themselves at the expense of everyone else.
Of course, all this really proves is that one thing never changes, and that’s Human Nature. Even if people eventually stop celebrating Christmas as a religious holiday, the holiday itself will survive the ages because everyone loves getting gifts even if they don’t always like giving them. I’ve always loved Christmas, it’s the one day of the year, more than any other, when most of us are nice to each other.