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“ARE YOU ALL SEEING THIS” (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You're young. Young enough to have to google my username meaning. Maybe also google what GIF means: Graphics Interchange Format. Long tima go you could find images on the internet, and they were always GIF, because JPG didn't exist.

But yes, it's quite strange nowadays, I agree Oh, yes, I used the net before smileys were a thing :-)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I'm not quite that young. Netizen is a "citizen of the internet", IIRC. More specifically, it's a portmanteau of "internet" and "citizen".

    I had also heard what the meaning of GIF was, though not so often that I could remember it off the top of my head.

    I'm not quite as old as the JPG format, but I do still remember using dial-up. I still remember accidentally logging into the internet when my dad was on the phone one day. I could hear his voice through the computer speakers. I immediately closed the browser. It was something that'd, surprisingly, never happened while I was on the computer before.

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