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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by vishnugupta on Saturday January 08, 2022 @12:56AM (#29849023)
For a non-tech regular user who just want to get some work done Internet Explorer was indeed the internet.

In India even to this day for a vast majority YouTube/FB/WA is all the internet is. It's not at all unusual for people to walk up to a mom-and-pop store to top-up their data plan asking them to "recharge my WhatsApp balance". Even carriers have specialised data packs that are tied to a specific product/service.

And to be fair this is just how it'll be with any product/tech. As an example, in India Xerox literally stands for photocopy https://imgur.com/a/66TnCog

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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by GreenWatermelon on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:19PM (#29865259)
The Xerox-copy thing is pretty interesting. Here in Egypt, Pampers is the word used for diapers, and for a while, IPad meant any kind of tablet.

I wonder what type of cultural memes exist for other cultures, similar to these examples.

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