• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Well fuck, I’m on the young end of Gen X and I was around for when the birth of the internet in '83.

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      9 hours ago

      What’s specific about '83? ARPANET began in 1969 and grew from there, mostly in academia, until HTTP finally transformed it into the WWW in the '90s.

      The “September that never ended” began in 1993. Maybe you meant that?