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Re:The User Always Loses by DataWorker on Saturday September 05, 2020 @10:31AM (#24383797)
You are counting 2 year olds in the denominator. IRC and Usenet were the internet. If you used a computer you used these. But yes, computers were less common then, especially amongst two year olds.
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Re:The User Always Loses by kergonath on Saturday September 05, 2020 @11:33AM (#24384304)
He’s also counting only Americans. There never was a time when normal people hanged out on IRC. Wikipedia has ~120 millions people on the Internet in 1997, and 10 millions IRC users at its peak in 2003. So 8% of Internet users on IRC is a wildly optimistic upper bound. 1% is probably closer to the truth.
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Re:The User Always Loses by chris-orgmenta on Saturday September 05, 2020 @10:44AM (#24383902)
Sure, I also pretended that IRC users were all US based... I could have taken a figure of 3b. instead of 3m.

Also was careful to state "stats are lazy and blunt"

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Re:The User Always Loses by chris-orgmenta on Saturday September 05, 2020 @09:02PM (#24388107)
*300m
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