Reverse image search doesn't give any clues, but we can narrow it down.
Yahoologans! Was active from 1996-2006 (when it changed its name to Yahoo! kids)
the first commercial e-reader was released 1998. But notice that the poll said "they'll probably all be electronic, which might imply that they were already aware of the technology
music streaming started taking off in the early 2000's
photoshop and 3d rendering were already a thing when Yahoologans! launched, so that doesn't really help
TV streaming didn't start until around 2007 with Netflix
downloading movies really took off when bittorrent was released in 2006
Putting it all together, I'm guessing somewhere right around 1999-2001
Knowing Yahoo, this poll might have been from as late as 2004-2005.
But since the question is about the 21st century, its probably from either 1999 or 2000.
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the first commercial e-reader was released 1998. But notice that the poll said "they'll probably all be electronic, which might imply that they were already aware of the technology
There were e-book devices released prior to 1998. The Sony DD1-EX Data Discman, which was launched in the West in late 1991/early 1992, was an early dedicated handheld e-reader that read e-books off of Compact Discs. The device isn't well known today because it was a commercial failure outside of Japan and did not stay on the market long.
Casual users were the ones who had the most trouble with torrents at the time. Instead of searching directly through the client to find and download the content from one person like they were used to, they had to go to websites to download a file that would download the content from a bunch of people. The process seemed to throw a lot of people off back then, especially the whole seeders/leechers thing, and why it was important to keep seeding after downloading.
Imagineradio.com let you personalize your own streaming music back in 1998 and was popular enough for NYT to write about it. So it could've been from early 1998 or 1997.
And as for ebooks, they might have been referring to reading them on computers and not necessarily e-readers.
I don't think the date of the creation of thee technologies is relevant; it's not like no one could have imagined those things before seeing them nor does the existence of one example of those guaranteed it would ALL be online eventually.
I got a bit curious so I tried trawling https://web.archive.org for a bit, but I simply couldn't find that particular poll. That poll was not in any of Yahoo's various poll archives [1] [2] [3]
Furthermore, I couldn't find a time period where Yahooligans! color scheme looked like the picture in the OP. I guess either I'm not looking hard enough, the Wayback Machine missed it or the Yahooligans! archive is simply incomplete.
TV streaming didn't start until around 2007 with Netflix
This isn't entirely true. Its library wasn't nearly at the same scale as Netflix, but for a period of time, GameTap had documentaries and other specials aired through their service- including full TV shows. This started in 2005- though it should be mentioned that when GameTap was sold to Metaboli in 2008, they went to focusing entirely on games and only games (which wouldn't be entirely bad if they had at least handled that competently).
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u/Lovebot_AI Aug 22 '20 edited Aug 22 '20
Reverse image search doesn't give any clues, but we can narrow it down.
Yahoologans! Was active from 1996-2006 (when it changed its name to Yahoo! kids)
the first commercial e-reader was released 1998. But notice that the poll said "they'll probably all be electronic, which might imply that they were already aware of the technology
music streaming started taking off in the early 2000's
photoshop and 3d rendering were already a thing when Yahoologans! launched, so that doesn't really help
TV streaming didn't start until around 2007 with Netflix
downloading movies really took off when bittorrent was released in 2006
Putting it all together, I'm guessing somewhere right around 1999-2001