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The software behind Facebook as an app wasn't particularly unique, yet it eclipsed the competition. The same could be said for Google. I remember the search en
by mellosouls 2y ago
The software behind Facebook as an app wasn't particularly unique, yet it eclipsed the competition. The same could be said for Google.
I remember the search engines of the time and Google was a quantum leap.
ChatGPT is even more revolutionary but whatever Google is now, once it was brilliant.
- bagacrap 2y agoUseful search unlocked the web. I will take that over LLMs in their present state.
- csallen 2y agoI agree, just saying, ChatGPT was a quantum leap, too. That's why it has all the consumer mindshare.
- spacemadness 2y agoIt gets more interesting the older I get seeing people speculate about the now vs. early internet without having lived through the 90s internet. My first response is "do you not remember what that was like?!" then I remember, no, in fact they might not have even been born yet.