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Re:What is the small web? (2020) by vicda on Monday January 03, 2022 @09:38PM (#29790584)
This is so painfully bullshit. Imagine the scientists and engineers at bell labs thinking that the operators of their machines are akin to drug addicts.
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Re:What is the small web? (2020) by jazzyjackson on Monday January 03, 2022 @09:52PM (#29790694)
The common quip is from the mid 90s, usually attributed to Edward Tufte but apparently the real source is "a guy from Wired":

> And o there is this incredible remark which a guy from Wired told me, that there are only two industries which refer to their customers as users, drugs and computers. "I've just got to have release 7.2", right!

[0] https://cryptome.org/jya/tufte.htm

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Re:What is the small web? (2020) by yeetaccount4 on Monday January 03, 2022 @09:50PM (#29790676)
Well they did start development in the 60’s, it wasn’t all pot and acid back then.

Oddly relevant to social media nowadays though.

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