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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by MomoXenosaga on Sunday October 24, 2021 @02:19PM (#28980551)
How many people browsing HN work in the advertising industry or indirectly receive their paycheck from it?

Important to keep in mind that the old hippie days from the 80s and 90s are long gone.

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by dragonwriter on Sunday October 24, 2021 @03:32PM (#28981141)
> Important to keep in mind that the old hippie days from the 80s and 90s are long gone.

Er, in what alternate history were there “hippie days” (except maybe as some kind of retrospective event) in the 1980s and 1990s?

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by buzzwordninja on Sunday October 24, 2021 @03:39PM (#28981201)
Up until the mid 90s, the culture of and on the Internet was academic, and any commercial activity was fairly harshly frowned upon.

This slowly faded as more people and companies got connected, but until then it was definitely a thing.

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by Nicksil on Sunday October 24, 2021 @03:29PM (#28981111)
>Important to keep in mind that the old hippie days from the 80s and 90s are long gone.

What does this mean?

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