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Toot

Written by Susan Potter on 2024-12-20 at 13:18

Me: The Web is 34 years old today.

Spouse: I thought you said something happened in 1969?

Me: That was the first message on Arpanet.

Spouse: But my dad dialed-up in the 80s from home to a university thing occasionally and he had email.

Me: yes, there was email and other things before the Web...

I regret everything but I am glad she half listens to me.

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Written by Matt McIrvin on 2024-12-20 at 14:01

@SusanPotter I remember the time in the late 80s when the Internet existed but my university wasn't on it; it was just on BITNET, and you had to explicitly bounce email messages off a repeater at Cornell to get them into the Internet... It was a lot like the fediverse-Bluesky bridge actually.

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Written by Eugene Yokota on 2024-12-20 at 16:37

@SusanPotter the Web of Theseus: first they encrypted everything, then HTTP/3 started sending traffic over UDP. are we still on The same Web?

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