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Peak Desktop Internet was twentyish years ago man, and the Web was only mainstreamish for, what, tenish years before that? if that?

a lot has changed in the past 20 years, culturally, with the rise of the smartphone, and it's useful to reflect upon that—I don't know why you're insisting on being a dick about it. I have to assume you grew up in the smartphone era, and that's all you've ever known.



> Peak Desktop Internet was twentyish years ago man, and the Web was only mainstreamish for, what, fifteenish years before that?

20 years ago = 2003

15 years before that= 1988

First web client = 1990

First public web page = 1991

NCSA Mosaic = 1993

Netscape Navigator = 1994

Mainstream Web is mid-late 90s.


2006: Facebook is made available to the general public

2007: iPhone launches

hence, Peak Desktop Internet = 2007ish, (a little under) twentyish years ago


>it's useful to reflect upon that

Upon how much it sucks


You know what they say about assumptions?




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