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Re:Why I don't think AGI is imminent by otabdeveloper4 on Monday February 16, 2026 @04:53AM (#47033055)
> Cultural changes take time. It took decades for the internet to move from nerdy curiosity to an essential part of everyone's life.

99% of people only ever use proprietary networks from FAANG corporations. That's not "the internet", that's an evolution of CompuServe and AOL.

We got TCP/IP and the "web-browser" as a standard UI toolkit stack out of it, but the idea of the world wide web is completely dead.

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Re:Why I don't think AGI is imminent by rglover on Monday February 16, 2026 @10:33AM (#47036288)
Shockingly rare how few realize this. It's a series of mega cities interconnected by ghost towns out here.
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