What do you think you're the last of?
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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job like my forebears, but nobody thinks they need my technical skills anymore, so I have talents now viewed as outdated and of limited use.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?
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Go troll elsewhere.
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Trolling? Nothing I wrote was untrue.
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I think what OP is trying to say is that people in their age range will end up being the last of those people, ie. the internet was one of their earliest memories and that happened to be right as it took off. A similar example from my age range, we will probably be the last to remember the WTC attacks as they happened. It's one of the earliest memories I have. Not me specifically, unless I am graced with an incredibly long life, but someone around my age who is.
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I also used to bring a micci of rye with me on these runs. I generally run with my running backpack, and I’d pull out the rye and take a shot and pull out a smoke and light it, all as im running, and keep going. It always got at least one laugh and one “wtf” from the other runners.
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i'm not sure i understand the question. if it is meant to ask what experience i've had that no other living person has or ever will experience again, then i'm probably not old enough in my mid 30s to lay any such claim. this doesn't seem likely to be what you mean though, since it should be obvious to you that you aren't the only surviving person who used the internet in the 90s.
my second interpretation of the question would be that you want to know what experience i am the most recent person to have experienced, which would work with your example, if you consider the 'early' internet to have ended and become the regular internet, right after you first got online. for that, a couple hours ago, i walked atop a particular out of the way concrete block wall on my way home. probably nobody has done that since then.
