[defrost]

Certainly in my lifetime we never posted such things publicly across the globe, neither for myself nor my peers, nor for my children and most of their peers at school.

Such things were printed and handed out and rarely made it past that years parents and students and the school archive (physical visit required).

[suddenlybananas]

Getting in the newspaper or on TV for winning an award or competition or something has been around for a long time.

[defrost]

For the very rare few, yes, a fair while.

For the Dux's and general high performers, less time than I've been alive.

For entire classrooms to be posted up via live streams, Insta, tok's, etc ... barely a decade or so.

It's not something that was always normal, and just because it's become "normalised" doesn't mean it must remain that way.