• the_q@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    Not 0? This chain is confusing. I guess a lot of you are young and me pointing out a truth really bothered y’all. Sorry gen Z.

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        2 days ago

        I can’t imagine getting emotionally invested in something so meaningless, but OK. I’m over myself.

        • LostCarcosan@lemmy.today
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          Well, you certainly seemed invested enough to act like a pedantic dickhead, adding nothing to a conversation other than pointing out how long you’ve been around and experienced you were in the internet before it was cool.

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            2 days ago

            Lol what? You inferred all that from a couple of sentences? Yeah I’m the one with problem…

    • FishFace@piefed.social
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      In the US it was about 8%, most other countries were lower. Just 5 years later, Canada surpassed 50% internet usage, with the USA not far behind. The pace of change over the 90s was astronomical; there were *no webpages in 1990!

      So it absolutely makes sense to separate the “old internet” from what existed in the 90s.

      The oldest people in Gen Z were 3 years old in 2000, so I don’t think any of them are speaking about that old internet from experience.

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        Seeing ‘early internet’ I came here expecting a discussion about IRC, Usenet and Gopher, to be honest. ‘Early internet’ means pre-http for me.