beebarfbadger@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 months agoThere was a time when the entirety of the internet would have fit onto the device you're currently browsing on.message-squaremessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareThere was a time when the entirety of the internet would have fit onto the device you're currently browsing on.beebarfbadger@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square80fedilink
minus-squaregregorum@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThere was a time it would’ve fit on a floppy
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 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-squaregregorum@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoNot true. The first document on the internet was, in fact, 7 pages in 8pt font.
minus-squaregregorum@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-24 months ago“Congratulations on buying a Packard Bell computer. Would you like to register me?”
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoThis is actually exactly why I love the internet
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoYeah, but if you wrote really small on a note card you could have used the entire internet on a test!
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 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 Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoAccording to wikipedia, “Microsoft has used the extension since 1983.”
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.
First spam
“Congratulations on buying a Packard Bell computer. Would you like to register me?”
Welcome to Packard Bell Navigator!
This is actually exactly why I love the internet
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.”
Lol, no idea