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7. This was the internet when I first signed on as a college student:

Mon Apr 14, 2025, 12:48 PM

Apr 2025

To a kid who'd been building his own computers in high school it was magical.

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(A Good long read). An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1 [View all] LiberalArkie Apr 2025 OP

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