• lugal@sopuli.xyz
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    17 hours ago

    I wish we’d refer to early internet era as something other than the 1900s.

    Oh feel you. Saying 1900s for the whole century feels wrong but why tho? We do it for other centuries as well so maybe it’s time to get used to it.

    WWW ostensibly started in 95.

    That’s already part of becoming mainstream. I use “internet” in the broader sense that includes other technology I’m not really familiar with. But some precursors of the internet were around in the 70s and maybe even earlier? Donno, I’m second wave myself. Sorry if my terminology is confusion and not correct.

    When we start referring to the “turn of the century” as the early 2000s, I may just outright die.

    I used the phrase “turn of the millennium”. Sorry if old people thought I meant 1000 CE.