I'm not ready for the Internet

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17 Comments

Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 43 pts · 2y (1 reply)

"I'm ready for the internet, but is the Internet ready for me?"

Psionicsickness@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 2y

See???? Seeee???? It was never really ready for me. This is what you get when you give uninhibited idiots like me a forum.

Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 42 pts · 2y (4 replies)

... In truth, I wasn't ready.

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Nobody was

Anticorp@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y

We were ready for the internet. We were not ready for every person with a pulse being able to post to and read from the Internet. Web 1.0 was a beautiful uncharted frontier.

RIPandTERROR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I believe this with all my heart. I wish the Internet had been able to evolve as WAN first for a few decades. Maybe then we might have been ready?

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y

Isn't that literally what happened with ARPANET?

experbia@kbin.social · 25 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Take me to the Internet.

Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y

I figured it'd be heavier.

Jumuta@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

Take me to the Internet

QuinceDaPence@kbin.social · 17 pts · 2y (1 reply)
turbodrooler@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

Just reading that has put that song in my head for the rest of the day. Thanks!

Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 2y (3 replies)

This screen looks so familiar to me. 90s Mac?

i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I believe it's MacOS 9 (which seems a bit late for "I'm not ready for the Internet", but maybe it was a hangover from MacOS 8?)

aeronmelon@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y

It's the Aqua interface, so that's actually Mac OS X.

Macs had access to the internet long before that, but you were on the right track that OS 9 was the first one to be marketed as "internet-ready." Saying "I'm not ready" in this case is the same as a "Setup networking later." options in current OSes.

moup@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

Yep. iMac/iBook first-run setup on MacOS 9.

Gonkulator@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 2y
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