Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
by kibwen on Thursday April 02, 2026 @01:36PM
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This is moving the goalposts. The commenter above is talking about the enthusiast-populated internet of the late 80s/early 90s, at which point it still wasn't even clear if it was legal to use the internet for commercial purposes. If all you mean to say is that the internet is currently commercialized, yes, that is obviously true, in much the same way that a disgusting ball of decomposing fungus may have once been an apple.
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Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
by JumpCrisscross on Thursday April 02, 2026 @01:38PM
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> commenter above is talking about the enthusiast-populated internet of the late 80s/early 90s, at which point it still wasn't even clear if it was legal to use the internet for commercial purposes
Source? Not doubting. But I have a friend who was buying airline tickets through CompuServe in the late 80s/early 90s.
Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
by hn_acc1 on Thursday April 02, 2026 @05:30PM
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Compuserve was NOT the internet. Compuserve / Prodigy / GEnie were early versions of Facebook. They also inter-operated (email) for some period of time. IIRC.
Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
by jasonfarnon on Thursday April 02, 2026 @07:27PM
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An important distinction, although I do remember AOL making a strong go at "branding" the internet by the late 90s.