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He mentions he was born in 1989, so it makes sense to talk about pre internet. Till the mid 2000s the internet was not this available. Growing up we didn't have
by malikNF 3y ago
He mentions he was born in 1989, so it makes sense to talk about pre internet.
Till the mid 2000s the internet was not this available. Growing up we didn't have ADSL till around 2004-2005. And even then it was 512mb/s. Yes the internet was invented a long while before that, pre-internet in this context makes sense to me as time before the internet existed this widely, and at these speeds.
- idiotsecant 3y agoI think you might have picked up a magnitude there.
- blangk 3y agoADSL at 512mbit is out of spec; tops out somewhere at 24 in the best case i think
- itronitron 3y agoThere was a huge difference between 1992 and 1994. The internet was readily available by 1995 when the author would have been 5 or 6 years old. Some people would argue that 1995 was peak-internet, not pre-internet.
- gardenhedge 3y agoWho would argue that? Most people were not using the Internet in 1995
- fragmede 3y agoExactly. Everybody tired of it being September (since 1993!) would argue that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
- sn9 3y agoIt was available but barely had any penetration. Notably this was pre- social media and smartphones which were the societal phase change most people think of as the line of demarcation.