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Internet? You know you wouldn't be able to take part in this debate without it. I wasn't able to read so many interesting things 20 years ago, and I was behind
by xiphias2 8y ago
Internet? You know you wouldn't be able to take part in this debate without it. I wasn't able to read so many interesting things 20 years ago, and I was behind in everything because I wasn't born at the right place in the world.
- toufiqbarhamov 8y agoThe internet is probably older than you are. A lot of the “exciting new tech” is a mature or market-ready form of technology that has been around since the Cold War or much earlier. There is also a lot of very old tech that is “new” only by virtue of having a microcontroller stuck in, much in the same way an IoT device is often just Device X + Network connection.
- scottlocklin 8y ago20 years ago, the internet was vastly superior to what we have now, which is basically turning into a much worse version of Genie, Compuserve and/or Prodigy (... now with more surveillance dystopia ...).