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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My first thought was the Bangles, but I'm officially old. Do I even want to know what the first row is referring to?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's about the people who get offended at anything that can look like cultural appropriation.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Hey! You're appropriating my culture of being offended by people who appropriate culture!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Its a cactuar.

Arguably pre-internet, first appeared in FF 6, 1994.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Internet's older than you think. Tim Berners Lee, the dude who invented the World Wide Web, opened it up to the public a year earlier.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I said arguably because people will argue over exactly what they mean by 'pre-Internet'.

Is your metric the existence of a network transmission standard used by a few university research centers?

When the WWW standard was invented and opened up?

When over 50% of Americans had a home device capable of connecting to the web?

When over 50% of Americans spent an average of X hours a day using the internet?

... etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

And we were using BBS and college FTP sites with Gopher in 92-93 when we got AOL at our house, but friends of mine had Compuserve or Prodigy even before that.