Prompted by all the commencements making the news.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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    3 days ago

    Lemme put it this way: In 2006 we were already reading comics, listening to music, and watching video via computers and the Internet.

    In 2006 there was already an “alt-right” but they called themselves “Tea Party”.

    In 2006 we had Wikipedia and YouTube and cell phones and speech-to-text.

    • otp@sh.itjust.works
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      We had the internet, and we even had social media, but it wasn’t quite as pervasive as it is today.