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Mostly it's Google's fault. I sometimes think this is not entirely fair of me -- if it hadn't been Google it would have been someone else? E.g., I'm sure there
by acheron 2y ago
Mostly it's Google's fault.
I sometimes think this is not entirely fair of me -- if it hadn't been Google it would have been someone else? E.g., I'm sure there's a parallel universe where the Internet ended up being dominated by AOL, and it's hard to believe that would have been much better.
But in this universe it was Google.
- ravetcofx 2y agoAnd wasn't Google fun for 15 or so years? They dazzled us with all this cool, free software and early machine learning, making us think they were sending us to technological utopia. 1GB of free email storage! Then 5GB, then Maps and Earth...
- vouaobrasil 2y agoThere ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
- namaria 2y agoThe thing about this quip is, it applies to the plebs. The owning class gets our free lunches all the time. This is a joke about being on the outside, not about the grit of reality. It makes those proclaiming it sound submissive, not edgy.