@[email protected] to [email protected] • 9 months agoThere was a time when the entirety of the internet would have fit onto the device you're currently browsing on.message-square72fedilinkarrow-up1343
arrow-up1343message-squareThere was a time when the entirety of the internet would have fit onto the device you're currently browsing on.@[email protected] to [email protected] • 9 months agomessage-square72fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink25•9 months agoThis is really nonsensical. It could fit on a piece of paper in font size 8 if you go back far enough and “stretch” the definition of Internet.
minus-squaregregorumlinkfedilinkEnglish39•edit-29 months agoNot true. The first document on the internet was, in fact, 7 pages in 8pt font. It was the New Purchase brochure from a Packard Bell 286 4MHz from Circuit City transcribed into .doc format.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish16•9 months agoYeah, but if you wrote really small on a note card you could have used the entire internet on a test!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•9 months agoAnd were all 7 of those pages uploaded at the same time? Ha, gotchu now! (But for real, is .doc that old?)
minus-squareI Cast Fistlinkfedilink11•9 months agoAccording to wikipedia, “Microsoft has used the extension since 1983.”
minus-squaregregorumlinkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-29 months ago“Congratulations on buying a Packard Bell computer. Would you like to register me?”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•8 months agoThis is actually exactly why I love the internet
There was a time it would’ve fit on a floppy
This is really nonsensical. It could fit on a piece of paper in font size 8 if you go back far enough and “stretch” the definition of Internet.
Not true. The first document on the internet was, in fact, 7 pages in 8pt font.
It was the New Purchase brochure from a Packard Bell 286 4MHz from Circuit City transcribed into .doc format.
Yeah, but if you wrote really small on a note card you could have used the entire internet on a test!
And were all 7 of those pages uploaded at the same time? Ha, gotchu now! (But for real, is .doc that old?)
According to wikipedia, “Microsoft has used the extension since 1983.”
Ha! So not as old as me
Lol, no idea
First spam
“Congratulations on buying a Packard Bell computer. Would you like to register me?”
Welcome to Packard Bell Navigator!
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This is actually exactly why I love the internet