beebarfbadger@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 months agoThere was a time when the entirety of the internet would have fit onto the device you're currently browsing on.message-squaremessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-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 · 8 months agomessage-square39fedilink
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoThis 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-up0·edit-28 months agoNot 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-squaregregorum@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-28 months ago“Congratulations on buying a Packard Bell computer. Would you like to register me?”
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoThis is actually exactly why I love the internet
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoAnd 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-up0·8 months agoAccording to wikipedia, “Microsoft has used the extension since 1983.”
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.
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
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.”