2010 flashback: explaining to a Bali hotel that internet was for my income, not Netflix. Good times.

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Was travel really just for fun even back then? Lots of people had to mix work and trips way before it was normal. The hotel's view feels pretty out of touch with how people actually lived.

derek_lewis1mo ago

That 2010 hotel internet debate is a perfect example. @mason283, when you say people mixed work and trips way before, are you talking about salesmen or rich businessmen? For regular working class families, a vacation was often the only time they left their town, and bringing work along would have been unthinkable (and impossible). My granddad drove trucks and his "travel" was just long hauls, not some fun getaway with a laptop. Doesn't that show leisure travel was mostly for one group, while work travel was for another, until tech mashed them together for everyone?

jackson.sarah1mo ago

Actually, hotels in 2010 were totally right to question work use on their internet! Vacations are meant for escaping job stress, not bringing it along. If you needed to work, maybe you should have stayed home or found a cafe. The hotel's limited connection was better suited for guests to unwind with movies. Insisting on work internet could slow things down for everyone trying to relax. It was a different time when leisure travel and work weren't so mixed up.