Jonty WareingI am on an intercity commuter train for the first time in 15 years. In a carriage of six people, four of them are on zoom calls. Another one called the vet. I am the sixth person.
This is hell. What are we doing here.
Nerds [1999]: We would like a pervasive connection to the global information superhighway.
Nerds [2026]: Yes but we didn't want everyone else to have it.
robb@dlx Not gonna lie I did evaluate everything I had with me to see if I could knock out the train wifi
[tj] - knows what your packets are thinking
Phil Gyford@jonty I fantasise occasionally about "What If the Internet could only work over wired connections" Many ways things would be better, worse and weird.
Andreas Sikkema@jonty that’s been a thing since 1993 or 1994 I think, when AOL customers got connected. Something with eternal September ;-)
Franziska
EndlessMason@jonty
I remember thinking I wanted a computer in my car...
... Monkey paw curls