What do you think you're the last of?
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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job like my forebears, but nobody thinks they need my technical skills anymore, so I have talents now viewed as outdated and of limited use.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.
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i occupy a different sort of middle ground in that i'm at the right generation to get those well paying technical jobs simply because i had to monkey around with off-the-shelf hardware and linux when they were both new to most people; but i also don't get as many requests for technical help as i once did from family.
however, in my case, it's been because the entire younger generations of my family have gone with iphones along with apple's walled garden so they've never had to struggle with something like getting winsock working on windows 3.11 just to get internet porn. lol
somehow, it's only the other older & leftist in my family that insist on diy implementations with linux and foss hardware, including de-googled androids; while the moderates and conservatives alike just buy iphones and never learn because of it.
like in your case; they see that technical skillset as mildly useful at best even though it underpins their own technology choices. worst of it all to me is that i get to witness them struggling to afford another iphone or its fees simply because they refuse to go with "poor people androids" or they don't want to deal with the frustration of getting things to work without apple's walled garden; some prioritize it over food or rent simply due to the exorbitant costs.
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Lol, you think 1996 is early internet?
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How much do you smoke and how much do you run?
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They're probably confusing the World Wide Web for the Internet as whole.
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I really liked the game something like 15 years ago. But it seems like a bad idea to get back into it now with only a few very dedicated players left.
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Do you smoke while running?
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As they stated it became accessible to the average person in 1996. Prior to that you would be lucky if their was a local ISP offering access to the internet.
I worked at several engineering companies in 1991 onward, and even though we had high end systems and tech back then we didn't get Internet and email until 1996. And initially it was useless because your clients didn't all have email yet. -
Eh I only smoke about 4-5 a day usually and at my heaviest running I did 5k plus for 8 months every day. Now I do about 15k a week.
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Not generally, but I did a couple half marathons where I smoked one or two smokes during the run just because it was funny. Even came in top ten percent one run when I did that.
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The usage of those terms became blurred immediately, as far as general public awareness goes.
If you use enough brain cells to be above "lol, I like that clip clicks like lolol", then you're labeled a nerd.
If you're familiar with any acronyms that have to do with tech, then you're a super nerd.
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That is pretty funny.
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Oh lol, you tried sounding smart there.
You've only sourced what is essentially a step of development for the internet. Do you even read?
