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> Because it seems wildly hyperbolic. We're not in the year 1995 anymore. That's exactly what I was thinking. We're not in the 90s when people thought AOL and
by throwitaway1123 3y ago
> Because it seems wildly hyperbolic. We're not in the year 1995 anymore.
That's exactly what I was thinking. We're not in the 90s when people thought AOL and the internet were synonyms.
- int_19h 3y agoYeah; now they think that Chrome is...
- throwitaway1123 3y agoI don't think people are ditching internet relay chat because they can't figure out how to run an app. But if I had to think of a modern equivalent of this joke, I would say now they think that Wi-Fi and the internet are synonyms.
- daveloyall 3y agoPSA: there is an Android application named "Google" (sic) which is a browser, but it's not Chrome. This browser application stores every interaction (browsing history, etc) on the server-side. My mother-in-law uses it .. to buy sweaters from bloggers? She uses it for everything. And yes, she thinks the internet is just named Google. :(
- throwitaway1123 3y agoYikes, that's unfortunate. I have elderly family members with that level of technological literacy, and I've just accepted that they'll never end up on the Fediverse, or IRC (even if I point them to a webchat like Libera's in-browser Gamja and KiwiIRC clients).