• snooggums
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        811 hours ago

        Well fuck, I’m on the young end of Gen X and I was around for when the birth of the internet in '83.

        • palordrolap
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          411 hours ago

          What’s specific about '83? ARPANET began in 1969 and grew from there, mostly in academia, until HTTP finally transformed it into the WWW in the '90s.

          The “September that never ended” began in 1993. Maybe you meant that?

          • snooggums
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            410 hours ago

            I’m thinking of TCP/IP allowing for the connectivity to massively expand around '83.

              • @johsny
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                28 hours ago

                I do. And telnet, and eventually winsock and altavista. I miss alt.lemmy.shitpost