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[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

This is really nonsensical. It could fit on a piece of paper in font size 8 if you go back far enough and "stretch" the definition of Internet.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not true. The first document on the internet was, in fact, 7 pages in 8pt font.

It was the New Purchase brochure from a Packard Bell 286 4MHz from Circuit City transcribed into .doc format.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

Yeah, but if you wrote really small on a note card you could have used the entire internet on a test!

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

And were all 7 of those pages uploaded at the same time? Ha, gotchu now! (But for real, is .doc that old?)

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 11 points 5 months ago

According to wikipedia, "Microsoft has used the extension since 1983."

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Ha! So not as old as me

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago
[-] kambusha@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago
[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

“Congratulations on buying a Packard Bell computer. Would you like to register me?”

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Welcome to Packard Bell Navigator!

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

[ ] YES

[ ] Maybe Later

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

This is actually exactly why I love the internet

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