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[-] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

same answer i gave 40 years ago to my nutjob relatives: yes

[-] Docker@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Wow..... You mean you told that even before l was born ??๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ˜ณ

By the way, l saw the birth of the internet.

[-] thedruid@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

I was born before we landed on the moon. So could be.

You do know the world has been around longer than 40 years, right?

And you weren't around when the Internet was born if you're under 40, hell if your under 50, using the the 1970s as a generous approximation of the appearance of packet networks, you still weren't around at the birth of the internet.

I

[-] Docker@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Wasn't the internet born after the Berlin Wall was broken down and the USSR collapsed ???๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ˜ณ

[-] Docker@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I don't remember about the breaking down of the Berlin Wall, but l used to hear about countries called Soviet and West Germany; later l heard that the Soviet had broken up into fragments and that there was now one single Germany. That was long before l heard anything about the internet.

[-] Docker@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

You mean to say that the internet existed during the heights of the Cold War era ?? But l remember reading in magazines how the world will get entangled by a virtual web, called the world wide web..... I used to read such articles in 1994-95...... And then finally l got a taste of the internet in '97 or '98.........

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

The Internet =|= World Wide Web

[-] Docker@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Are you from Finland ?? Finland is not in the EU ???

[-] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

are you related to me? i fucking hope not

By the way, l saw the birth of the internet.

yeah, gullible idiots rarely grow out of it

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