• Decoy321@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Internet’s older than you think. Tim Berners Lee, the dude who invented the World Wide Web, opened it up to the public a year earlier.

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        I said arguably because people will argue over exactly what they mean by ‘pre-Internet’.

        Is your metric the existence of a network transmission standard used by a few university research centers?

        When the WWW standard was invented and opened up?

        When over 50% of Americans had a home device capable of connecting to the web?

        When over 50% of Americans spent an average of X hours a day using the internet?

        … etc.

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        And we were using BBS and college FTP sites with Gopher in 92-93 when we got AOL at our house, but friends of mine had Compuserve or Prodigy even before that.