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This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

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In 1998, Paul Krugman predicted the internet's impact on the economy would be no greater than the fax machine's (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I saw NCSA Mosaic in February (March?) of '93 and remarked to the user that it didn't seem to be anything special, and that I could get all that information on Gopher or Archie. They thought I was crazy.

By July I'd changed my mind and told my wife that in a few years there would be plumbing trucks with web addresses on them instead of 800 numbers. She thought I was crazy.

Maybe I'm just crazy?