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Re:What does a leaked Google memo reveal about the future of... by AnonymousPlanet on Sunday May 14, 2023 @11:34AM (#35938751)
I must have overlooked all those conferences on time travel that are on the same level as, e.g., AAAI.

But yes, public perception is a different thing. Most people are totally baffled when I tell them that the first spam email was sent in 1978, because for a lot of people the internet (and with it email) popped into existence somewhere around 2004.

Re:What does a leaked Google memo reveal about the future of... by medoc on Sunday May 14, 2023 @03:26PM (#35940646)
Not to nitpick but this would rather be around 199x when AOL joined the Internet.
Re:What does a leaked Google memo reveal about the future of... by AnonymousPlanet on Sunday May 14, 2023 @06:54PM (#35942100)
Oh, it's a different time for any group of people you ask. For some it was AOL, for others the media coverage that picked up around 1995/1996. And some were late to the game and only noticed when every one around them got DSL in the early 2000's. I kind of picked 2004 at random. It represents a (sadly rather sizeable) group of people in rural areas who neither got DSL nor internet over cable before that time and therefore just didn't pay attention.