Its a cactuar.
Arguably pre-internet, first appeared in FF 6, 1994.
Internet’s older than you think. Tim Berners Lee, the dude who invented the World Wide Web, opened it up to the public a year earlier.
I said arguably because people will argue over exactly what they mean by ‘pre-Internet’.
Is your metric the existence of a network transmission standard used by a few university research centers?
When the WWW standard was invented and opened up?
When over 50% of Americans had a home device capable of connecting to the web?
When over 50% of Americans spent an average of X hours a day using the internet?
… etc.
And we were using BBS and college FTP sites with Gopher in 92-93 when we got AOL at our house, but friends of mine had Compuserve or Prodigy even before that.
*Al Gore
My first thought was the Bangles, but I’m officially old. Do I even want to know what the first row is referring to?
It’s about the people who get offended at anything that can look like cultural appropriation.
Hey! You’re appropriating my culture of being offended by people who appropriate culture!
