beebarfbadger@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1年前There was a time when the entirety of the internet would have fit onto the device you're currently browsing on.message-squaremessage-square85fedilinkarrow-up1346
arrow-up1346message-squareThere was a time when the entirety of the internet would have fit onto the device you're currently browsing on.beebarfbadger@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1年前message-square85fedilink
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25·1年前This is really nonsensical. It could fit on a piece of paper in font size 8 if you go back far enough and “stretch” the definition of Internet.
minus-squaregregorum@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·edit-21年前Not true. The first document on the internet was, in fact, 7 pages in 8pt font. It was the New Purchase brochure from a Packard Bell 286 4MHz from Circuit City transcribed into .doc format.
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1年前Yeah, but if you wrote really small on a note card you could have used the entire internet on a test!
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1年前And were all 7 of those pages uploaded at the same time? Ha, gotchu now! (But for real, is .doc that old?)
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1年前According to wikipedia, “Microsoft has used the extension since 1983.”
minus-squaregregorum@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21年前“Congratulations on buying a Packard Bell computer. Would you like to register me?”
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1年前This is actually exactly why I love the internet
This is really nonsensical. It could fit on a piece of paper in font size 8 if you go back far enough and “stretch” the definition of Internet.
Not true. The first document on the internet was, in fact, 7 pages in 8pt font.
It was the New Purchase brochure from a Packard Bell 286 4MHz from Circuit City transcribed into .doc format.
Yeah, but if you wrote really small on a note card you could have used the entire internet on a test!
And were all 7 of those pages uploaded at the same time? Ha, gotchu now! (But for real, is .doc that old?)
According to wikipedia, “Microsoft has used the extension since 1983.”
Ha! So not as old as me
Lol, no idea
First spam
“Congratulations on buying a Packard Bell computer. Would you like to register me?”
Welcome to Packard Bell Navigator!
This is actually exactly why I love the internet