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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 hours ago

AI-generated art will never not give me the ick

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Technically it's the Internet's conception date, not its birthday.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Gotta correct you there. The internet has its roots in the 1970s Arpanet (and maybe even earlier projects). You're thinking of the World Wide Web (Webpages, HTML, HTTP) that came with Tim-Berners Lee but is built upon the pre-existing internet structures and services.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Its the anniversary of deciding the Internet was not an unwanted child.

[–] solrize 9 points 5 hours ago

Look what they've done to my web, ma.

[–] Treczoks 3 points 5 hours ago

I remember when Thomas called me to show me something new: like Gopher, but with hypertext. And I have been on the original web server, Tim Barners-Lee's NeXT cube.