• snooggums
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      1 month ago

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

      • palordrolap
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        61 month 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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          91 month ago

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

            • @johsny
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              41 month ago

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