• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    I expect in 120 years, kids will re-invent what they think is 1990’s cyberpunk by gluing CDs and bits of broken DVD players onto their hats.

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      22 days ago

      In the 1990s all internet data was transported by snails using these things called AOL CD-ROM packets.

      With the TC-AOL-CD-ROM protocol, you had to keep on gluing a copy of the same CD to another snail every day and sending it off to the recipient, until you get one back confirming the reciept.