No, because it is not true. The Internet started as an idea for decentralized communications that the military could use in case of nuclear war. Then DARPA got the universities involved and it became a way to connect all the uni networks, which the unis used to share research when we were not being nuked.

Edit: When the internet first started to appear, there just wasn’t enough bandwidth to engage in surveillance, even after the uni’s got involved. No one anticipated it exploding into everyone’s household. Surveillance got tacked on later.

Yeah, it is common to drop high school and college jobs unless it is relevant to the job you’re applying for OR it is your first job out of college and want to emphasize your work effort.

People still sleep on Excel. Nothing else touches it, and your finance department would riot if IT tried any of its “replacements.”

Not at all. They created a great browser, which is what us end users wanted, but they never achieved their ecosystem goals.

The republicans have been brainwashing their base to believe Democrats and Liberals are Satan’s minions, just pure evil. They’ll believe anything that fits that narrative. Remember the guy that shot up a pizza place because the right wing fronted a conspiracy theory that Hillary was running a pedophile ring in the basement.

Not only that, they had goals beyond just a browser. They wanted to create a whole OS ecosystem integrated with the browser. They released Firefox as a side project to just get a browser in everyone’s hands while they worked on Mozilla. Turns out the OS ecosystem in a browser was a bust, and Firefox was a winner. Just the Mozilla devs haven’t stopped being bitter about it. The old Netscape motivations around the project have been a boat anchor.

GM doesn’t have the expertise to pull this off.

Beats the hell out of the Republicans deciding it. The Pandemic outed them.

Aren’t summaries and reviews covered under fair use? Otherwise Newspapers have been violating copyrights for hundreds of years.

“If you flag our lies, we’ll cry!!!” -Republicans

In early June I decided to give Lemmy the old test drive, and I haven’t left. Bye Reddit.

There is a whole lot of, “the leopards won’t eat MY face” in here.

It assumes everyone wants to play by the rules literally and spirit. Meta won’t do that.