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[-] Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 36 points 11 months ago

It's the normie trap. We made the mistake of letting normies in on our Internet and now we try to contain them on Facebook because they have ruined the Internet.

[-] andyburke@fedia.io 24 points 11 months ago

Too few people realize this is actually the source of all the world's current problems. We never, ever should have let the normies on here.

[-] slumberlust@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago
[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

It's kinda strange, the Eternal September was before my time and now we have whole generations of even tech-affine people who never heard of usenet. Which btw just like email pre-dates the internet.

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 months ago

Email predates WWW, it's fuzzier to determine if email is older than packet routed internet because both standards evolved in parallel so you have to pick and choose what counts on each end. First use of @ or creation of SMTP? First network with 3+ organizations or creation of TCP?

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I'd actually date it back to UUCP and BBSes exchanging batches of messages once a day or so. The days of routing by bang path.

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