Published in the New Yorker in 1993, the same year the world wide web went live.

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    2 days ago

    Anybody who recognizes the difference between the WWW and the Internet knows what they’re talking wbout

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      22 hours ago

      Being an alternate protocol nerd is a trip. Most people have no clue what a gopher/Gemini/spartan/finger is or how they differ from the web. The few handful on this planet that do are just other nerds who like to blogspam tech nerd things. It would be nice if the web enshittified so much even the average non techie was put into a position to look into these alternatives.

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      2 days ago

      ɯ-(ꞋʊꞋ)-ɯ

      Kilroy disagrees with your post

      A meme is a meme regardless of whether it started on the web, paper, or an ancient brick wall.

      The term meme started in the 70s and just because that’s become the commonly accepted term doesn’t mean they didn’t exist well before that (in fact there are examples that are thousands of years old preserved in ruins).