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Re:New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data by namuol on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @08:55PM (#23242208)
> 1998 [...] Not really that long ago

The Apple II came out in 1977, 43 years ago.

1998 therefore roughly marks the halfway point between the dawn of mainstream personal computers and the present day. I dare say 1998 was a very long time ago, in PC years.

Re:New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @04:29PM (#23251394)
That's fair, but respectfully, it really wasn't my point.

"There was a time—recent enough that it was within most of our lifetimes—when most computers had less than 200 MB of RAM total. You could read on those computers just fine."