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1. Polychrome :meowtea: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 03:09:28 JST Polychrome :meowtea:
   HN comment thread about Mastodon: guy talking about the early 00's chats and forums as barely thriving and only being used by a few people until Facebook came and brought the mainstream online.
   
   Another answers that the net was already thriving for him back then. He gets dismissed with "Many of us software devs are a different sort".
   
   Dude. It was everyone from children to soccer moms to my grandma. The primary draw at the time was email and once they got that they also visited forums and set up terrible GeoCities homepages about their cat. Yahoo! was exploding, Amazon was starting, pets.com was collapsing and people wouldn't shut up about eBay.
   
   Non-techies were very much online in the 00's and they didn't need a centralized social network to do it.
   
   It's so weird go see recent history being rewritten like that, this is barely 20 years ago.
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   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 03:13:05 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     Yes, but on the other hand in 2007 something that would eclipse the Eternal September happened: Apple released the iPhone. Suddenly the person who fumbled around with the computer was now online, anywhere. Unlimited data plans died off because iPhone users were making up 3% and taking up 40% of data in 2009...and also iPhones were trendy like iDEN and Motorola Razr phones were.
     
     https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-dec-10-la-fi-iphone10-2009dec10-story.html
     https://www.reuters.com/article/urnidgns002570f3005978d80025773700587657/att-drops-unlimited-data-plan-impacts-iphone-owners-idUS370135499520100603
     
     A few years later, the entire third world seemingly was online.
   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 06:37:57 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     @Polychrome watching history being rewritten in near real time made me more of a skeptic than I ever imagined possible.
   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 06:38:30 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     • Hyolobrika
     • Gabe
     @Hyolobrika @Polychrome @gabriel I had 2 kids.
   • hyolobrika@berserker.town's status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 06:38:31 JST Hyolobrika

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     • Gabe

     @Polychrome
     I was five twenty years ago. I didn't have the internet.
     @gabriel