Post #1879463
2026-05-01 12:50 UTC
Sat on a ferry listening to a man confidently tell his friends that the internet was invented by Elon Musk in 1995.
I miss when I got to teach computing history.
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@kestral@masto.hackers.town 2026-05-01 12:56
He has gone on to describe IP addresses as “an app that lets hackers in” and when asked what IP stood for he paused and said “Internet Preference” and then sipped his coffee with the confidence of a startup founder chasing a Series A.
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@kianryan@oldbytes.space 2026-05-01 12:52
@kestral@masto.hackers.town Sweet mother of Tim Berners Lee.