What do you think you're the last of?
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I am probably the last of the group of people that were some of the early adopters of the internet. The internet didn't fully become public and more accessible until 1994, I didn't start using the internet until 1996. I am nearing 30 years old on the internet by next year. People from my group, we've seen it all by this point.
We've seen the internet at it's infancy, as it developed, the explosion of it's usage, the dot com bubble burst, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Flash's death and the ongoing enshittification of the internet today as we know it.
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add to this that the internet made so many of us technically & technologically proficient because it was a necessary step to get us online.
that further spurred on knowledge of things that laymen wouldn't have cared about otherwise like cpu architectures or clock frequencies; operating systems internals with things like linux or bsd; knowledge of basic networking fundamental; html/css/javascript for geocities & myspace pages; etc.
as the enshitification turns the internet into walled gardens and people continue to use smart phones that "just work"; they are no longer able to repair their own devices like we had to do, which spares them from having to learn the nuts and bolts of the technology that enables our lives.
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I think I’m one of the only long distance runners that still smokes. I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who runs as much as I do and smokes cigarettes every day.
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I don’t understand—you think you’re one of the last people left who started using the internet in the 90s?
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I can still rattle out the right tones you'd hear if you connected at 56k, that extra pshhhhh hhhshhhhh
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My paternal family name. No one else carries my last name and I'm almost 40, been single for a decade now so kids are out of the question.
God knows how many generations of this name existed only to die out because I'm pathetic lol
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i used to have dreams about that handshake. lol
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As of now (4.45pm GMT on 25th Feb 2025) I'm the last to comment on this post of a person who (erroneously) believes they are the last of the early adopters of the internet (I'd say there are millions of us).
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"Points at adoption/fostering (assuming you want children)"
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There's dozens of us!
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Day of Defeat source players:
https://steamcharts.com/app/300#All
Its like being on an island that is slowly sinking into the sea.
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I appreciate the suggestion, but I'm single and live in a garage "apartment." It wouldn't be a good life for them.
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No hundreds
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When USRobotics first brought the 56k modem to market, they had an online contest to give away 100 of them. I won one. My ISP couldn't even serve me 56k for about another year.
Also, I miss silly fun winnable online contests and freebies.
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It is depressing to think that this is what you feel makes you unique.. any 45+ person is in the same boat as you my friend...
You are special though, but this is not what makes you special.
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My familial line. Sorry nerds, the buck stops here. I'm not gonna force anyone else into this hellscape against their will. If I ever adopt, they can keep their familial names.
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whole nations
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And don’t even get me started on “AI”.
As the family technical person, I can say after years of attempting to teach people to understand and solve their own problems, my support calls are down in the past year! Is it because they got smarter? No! They started using ChatGPT, CoPilot, etc and following it blindly. Do they understand the concepts of what they are changing and doing? No, but as long as the original problem is fixed, who cares if a dozen more are created, as long as they keep quiet.
I am cursed to be in the middle, couldn’t just be given a well paying technical job like my forebears, but nobody thinks they need my technical skills anymore, so I have talents now viewed as outdated and of limited use.
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I will be last person to take the last hit from my very nearly empty lemonade raspberry dispo at some point later today.
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I remember when the Gestapo was real, and when the wall came down.
