• Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    Unrelatedly, I need to quickly sneer at another quote:

    like in 1995 when the internet was born

    1995? How was the Internet born in 1995? Eternal September already started two years ago at that point.

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      5 months ago

      Even Mosaic was 2 years old already in 1995, so the web—much younger than the infrastructure—was a solidly established thing. Did he just make up the number or is that some benchmark, I wonder?