minus-squaretheherk@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Without mentioning smartphones or social media, what societal changes have you noticed over the course of your lifetime?linkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 days agoGods, and I felt I was early. I used gopher pre-www, and definitely had interacted with computers by 88, but interacting with networking by that time was virtually unheard of outside of academic or defense settings. linkfedilink
minus-squaretheherk@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are commonly used idioms/metaphors that make no sense to anyone who knows about the topic they come from?linkfedilinkarrow-up14·5 days agoDepends on the slope of the curve. linkfedilink
Gods, and I felt I was early. I used gopher pre-www, and definitely had interacted with computers by 88, but interacting with networking by that time was virtually unheard of outside of academic or defense settings.