• Captain Howdy
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    31 month ago

    Who was using dial up 15 years ago (2009)? I grew up in a very rural area and even we got broadband by like 2003 or so. I think someone got their math wrong.

    • @kerrigan778
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      191 month ago

      Lol Napster shut down in 2002, it’s clearly not a present day tweet.

      • @wolfpack86
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        1 month ago

        Napster ran from 1999-2002, meaning the tweet must be between 7-10 years old

        Edit: or just be made up and a guess at the time dfferential.

        • @kerrigan778
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          31 month ago

          No, no it is not, an unrelated company bought the brand and logos at bankruptcy auction and started Napster 2.0, a rebrand of an unrelated music service, which was then bought by Best Buy and became Rhapsody, then THAT was sold to some tech companies and unified branded as Napster again. It has no connection other than branding to the original Napster.

            • @kerrigan778
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              There’s ship of Theseus and then there’s Theseus threw out the whole ship, bought a used ship from someone else but it was still called the ship of Theseus because it was, literally, the ship of Theseus, but you still wouldn’t say THE ship of Theseus was still alive and well.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      The house I grew up in just got a wired connection (fiber) in 2024. We had 3G by 2009 but the data caps and cost made it not ideal. Couldn’t even get ISDN.