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Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections by rectang on Friday June 26, 2020 @09:08PM (#23658704)
It's oft forgotten how much more uncertainty we lived with in the pre-internet era. Once you've gotten used to the memex it's hard to imagine life without one.
Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections by ethbro on Friday June 26, 2020 @10:08PM (#23658952)
I was reminiscing the other day about the Encyclopedia Britannica set we bought when I was a child. Probably within the last 10 years dictionaries were sold.

A few years later, Microsoft Encarta [0] was available on CD.

And a decade later, that was gone itself because of the internet.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta

Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections by hnick on Friday June 26, 2020 @09:57PM (#23658907)
Sometimes at work over lunch we have debates or arguments that could easily be solved with a quick google but it's just more fun to let it run its course.