Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    16 hours ago

    Computers are fine. It’s the internet that was a problem. Some will say social media, but newsgroups were the social media of the day. If the internet remained too difficult for stupid people to access, there’d only be a small number of people poisoned by bad information and they could be safely ignored, just like in the 90s.

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      15 hours ago

      Nah, man, based on the stories my parents told me from the 70s and 80s, computers were a mistake long before the Internet.

      It was as soon as the devices got in the hands of people who couldn’t program that things got bad