me: hey remember the first quarter of the 90s when everyone was really into fractals, cause consumer electronics were advanced enough to generate them, like people used them as their screensaver

also me: remember the last quarter where consumer electronics could do digital signal processing and people ran SETI@home as their screensaver?

me: I guess that was preparing us for CGI crowd scenes

also me: I guess that was preparing us for omnipresent wiretaps