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Gather round children. Let grandma tell you of a time long long ago when the internet was young. And how in those days every company knew it was the "next thing" but didn't know what to do about it. This is what gave us the "internet button" ... this was a button added to some keyboards that said "internet" since people wanted a computer "with internet" and if it has the button ...well... then it must have that.

Presumably it opened a browser window or something. No one really knows.

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@shippychaos

I remember some kid at school trying to trade me like 10 AOL discs for one of the video games I'd burned saying "but this is like 10,000 hours of internet!

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@shippychaos
I remember when aol doubled my homework media costs by switching from floppies to CDs.
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@shippychaos
I remember when @bitpickup took that [AOL] CD case, printed his own proposal and got himself a student job at @unikassel so he could finance his studies to further @tierranietos.

@futurebird

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@aj they also put an Internet buttons on flip phones but the Internet access was 55 cents per 25kb so your life and visions of your destroyed financial future flashed before your eyes if you accidentally clicked it
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The Thinkpad I’m currently using has a key with the globe icon on it. I mapped the key in gnome to open my browser, like 1998 and junk.
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All my keyboards have that internet button. How else would I surf cyberspace?
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@faithisleaping

I just makes me think of confused grandpas in best buy.

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