Post #1927086

2026-04-23 10:56 UTC

@gael Google was out there since like forever, Facebook literally created the modern concept of social media. Microsoft has done a shit ton for tech as a whole. I'm not saying they're necessarily good, but these companies certainly created a new world, the one we know today.

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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie 2026-04-23 11:21

@mcjk @gael No, there was search & social media (And NTTP/Newsgroups) before Google & Facebook. BBS predates websites. Microsoft founded 1975 (ported Dartmouth BASIC to 8080) & Web sites are from about 1992, not widespread to public till 1993. Arpanet, the predecessor to the non-Web Internet had TCP/IP from 1972. The non-Web Internet approximately 1988. We never needed MS (DOS was a clone of CP/M). We never needed WFW3.11 or Win9x (Win10 based on WinNT 1993). UNIX 1976. Free BSD before NT.

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@nicolasvivant@colter.social 2026-04-23 15:14

@mcjk @gael > Google was out there since like forever Nope. I remember a time when the web didn’t have search engines, then there was a keyword-based search engine (Altavista) and a directory-based one (Yahoo). It wasn’t until later that Google came along (six years after the web was created).

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