Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry...
by skinnymuch on Monday June 07, 2021 @05:43PM
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You probably won’t see this any more so I won’t respond to rest unless you respond.
For your last point. Were you around for the development of Arpanet? I don’t think there are many people who were adults in the 69s in the few places arpanet was developed at.
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So not being around for something doesn’t exclude you from being able to discuss internet related things.
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For understanding internet. I don’t think 99.9% of the population understands the difference between the internet and protocols like the web. Not sure that’s relevant any way tho.
Comparing cryptocurrencies to the Internet is about comparing its usefulness, not it's understandability. I won't argue that people in general understood the Internet.
Take my example of Fidonet. If you were not a computer expert then you had never heard of Fidonet. BBSs? Maybe you'd heard of it in some news clip about the dangers of computers.
Hell, the only time non-experts even saw anything close to a BBS was probably the movie Wargames.
> You’re giving a completely wrong impression of how the early web was and the early internet.
In what way?
> I wasn’t around for that so I won’t personally give my input
You don't know, but you know I'm wrong about it?