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  • 94 was when it really took off and the hoi polloi started tuning in.

    https://ourworldindata.org/internet

    Be easy to make an argument for a few years later, but 1994 has always stuck in my mind as the take off point. By then there were “information superhighway” items all over the news, everybody got AOL disks, Windows 95 was right around the corner to take the pain out of PCs, stuff like that. That’s the year I’d point to and say the internet was no longer a nerd thing.

    1994: I was still fiddling with a 286 (WITH a math coproccesor I installed!), way beyond my skills at the time. LOL, my gf and I had to drive across town a beg a local IBM guy to give us a copy of the BIOS on a floopy when ours crash. He acted like Neo giving Choi the disk, “Yeah, I know. This never happened. You don’t exist.”



  • Said here before, I clean the local woods on every trip. I can tell where I haven’t been for awhile by the trash.

    It’s made a serious impact! Ya know, the whole “broken windows” thing? Most of the crap is from 3 things:

    • People chunking beer cans. I can understand (without condoning) that they’re likely underage and don’t want to get busted.
    • Snack wrappers. Again, likely kids given the waste I find. That’s on the parents.
    • Crap that floated down from higher ground. People see trash and assume it was chunked on purpose. Nope. Tons of it simply flooded down from spilled trash cans, fell out of the car when exiting, shit like that.

    We ALL litter, believe that. No matter how hard we try our waste gets away from us. Hell, I’ve found my own beer cozies on various trails, 4 times in the last year. I find my own crap at our camp every trip. “How the fuck did I drop that?!” Oops. Pick up more than you can possibly lose. That’s all a man can do.

    LOL, my kid’s when boating, “No daddy! Don’t go mess with that!” Now? They’re actively hunting trash and fishing tackle. Hell, my wife was the same way and now makes us turn around for fishing bobbers.