When tape recorders were first popular, you wouldn't find one in a Beis Medrash. It was not part of the "tradition" - so it wasn't used. Because of that we lost a LOT of Torah that wasn't recorded. Then came the time that it was standard practice to record shiurim - even in the frummest places.
Then computers became the thing. At the beginning - you wouldn't find a computer in a Beis Medrash [except in modern places like the Gush]. Now, you walk into any Beis Medrash and you see even the frummest people using one.
Home computers - at first it was very uncommon in Charedi homes. There was very strong push back. The other day my daughter told me that there is only ONE GIRL in her very frum Beis Yaacov who doesn't have a home computer.
Rav Avigdor Miller z"l was asked about putting his Torah on the Internet when the Internet was in its infancy. He compared it to putting Torah in a toilet ח"ו. Today, there is a whole website with his Torah. Another well known living Rav calls the Internet the worst of Tumah and he also has a website [run by a talmid with his consent]. I am not aware of any Rav who won't give a shiur or speak on zoom - even the frummest of the frum [see Torahanytime]. When the Mir and other yeshivos have dinners and the like they advertise on the Internet. Times are a-changing.
Lesson: Sometimes things are considered taboo/assur/abominable but it is just a matter of time until they become the standard. Sometimes the innovations are beneficial - like writing divrei Torah on a computer as opposed to writing it by hand. At other times, the changes are not for the better [One example: In my opinion - everybody walking around with a phone. Another - All that walking down the aisle at frum weddings which is a church custom]. Unless it is explicitly forbidden by the Torah then one shouldn't be so quick to dismiss it as assur. Sometimes the benefit exceeds the harm. Sometimes not.
Thorny issue.
