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What's a completely normal sentence today that would have made no sense 50 years ago? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
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[–] j4k3@piefed.world 5 points 4 months ago

"Send me a text" 50 years ago meant a telegram, snail mail, or posting a personal listing in the local newspaper classified ads. Computers were largely just at universities, and at that point in the microprocessor evolution, personal devices were about as useful as a base inference generative AI model. That is 8080 age.