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It's the dunk tank.
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I’m not.
Before there even was an internet as we know it the local library had the chiltons manual for that truck. I know because I had a b series and went to the library for the chiltons manual.
Those sections are always big and neighboring counties will collude to make sure they have all the cars covered because it’s such popular information.
There is fantastic potential in the idea of the internet, but what is it? It’s mass media.
Even if it wasn’t and you could fight agent smith inside the matrix and win, the technology that fundamentally changed where people could live and under what limitations is a bigger deal than the one that saves you a trip to the library.
E: sorry if this comes off argumentative. “Electricity is more important than the internet” has some startup lag but the damage is good, it’s got plenty of reach, good hitboxes and can break guards at the end of combos. Once you add in the option to cancel into a roll with iframes it’s hard not to come out a little aggressive.
You're making massive assumptions about peoples level of access to information prior to the internet. For one, consider any country that didn't have public libraries. Like several of Americas largest companies are only as big as they are because of the internet.
I wouldn't disagree that electricity had a much higher impact than the internet, but to write it off as just some extension of the TV or radio is honestly one of the most bonkers things I've ever heard.
Places without public libraries weren’t part of the early internet generally. Literally all of Americas biggest companies reached the size they are because of electricity.
I’m not writing the internet off, it’s just a very one sided comparison. When you look at the effects of electricity on human development, the internet is so much closer to radio and tv that classifying it as mass media isn’t outlandish.