TurboGrafx16 [none/use name]

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  • TurboGrafx16 [none/use name]toem_poc*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 years ago

    Is there any reason the internet took off in America? I'm guessing because it was initially over telephone lines which is the last piece of infrastructure the US invested in decades before and it helps compensate for the massive distances information otherwise has to travel across North America. People in the US don't seem particularly friendly to new technology and computer literacy over other countries. Its usefulness isn't readily apparent and even the advertisements for it were usually pretty vague about what one could do on it. I'm guessing ISPs were able to make money without necessarily costing any other companies much money in the early days, so it wasn't a threat to TV companies for instance. The users seemed to initially just be college kids and tech professors on forums, etc. I don't see how that spills over into the general population.



  • Best memory of the subreddit was when the Cushvlogs just started and we talked about parenting under capitalism and all whatever other topics in the Reddit threads. Probably the best conversations and debates the sub had. Also a lot of the "I've finally read Lenin" discussion posts were pretty good when Bernie was betraying us.





  • TurboGrafx16 [none/use name]tocanada*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 years ago

    Social democracy is actually better than this. As much as leftist rag on SocDems, the "SocDem" parties aren't even SocDem in North America, they're just liberals with a small amount of handouts and different subsidies.