Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 17 hours agoHow old do you think is the oldest lemmy user?message-squaremessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down12
arrow-up144arrow-down1message-squareHow old do you think is the oldest lemmy user?Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 17 hours agomessage-square37fedilink
minus-squareClinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down2·17 hours agoOk boomer.
minus-squaresnooggums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·16 hours agoWell fuck, I’m on the young end of Gen X and I was around for when the birth of the internet in '83.
minus-squarepalordrolap@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·16 hours agoWhat’s specific about '83? ARPANET began in 1969 and grew from there, mostly in academia, until HTTP finally transformed it into the WWW in the '90s. The “September that never ended” began in 1993. Maybe you meant that?
minus-squaresnooggums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·15 hours agoI’m thinking of TCP/IP allowing for the connectivity to massively expand around '83.
Ok boomer.
Well fuck, I’m on the young end of Gen X and I was around for when the birth of the internet in '83.
What’s specific about '83? ARPANET began in 1969 and grew from there, mostly in academia, until HTTP finally transformed it into the WWW in the '90s.
The “September that never ended” began in 1993. Maybe you meant that?
I’m thinking of TCP/IP allowing for the connectivity to massively expand around '83.