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The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now (www.stephendiehl.com)
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[–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

BBS's pre-date what we know as the internet - that is, commercially available interconnections via an ISP to a "wider web" of servers. Pedantically you can argue there is overlap with the period when only universities and a couple of tech companies were interconnected but calling that the internet is like calling a horse and buggy a car because it has wheels and carries passengers

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    I think we may just have a difference in perspective. I would call a buggy a car because it has wheels and carries passengers. I wouldn't call it an automobile, because that implies an automatic engine, but I would consider it a form of car.

    Same with BBS/Internet. Once you have a series of servers interconnected, and have access to them via an ISP, yes. That is a form of early internet. It dates back to something like the 1960s. Going back to NASA and government usage.

    So I think we're talking about the same thing with just a difference of perspective and opinion.

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