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Software that everyone in the world can use simultaneously. Sounds like a pretty good invention to me.

> Software that everyone in the world can use simultaneously

Our parents invented the Internet too ...

That's true. Internet is what makes this possible, not social media. Social Media is like a skin on an internet that was developed when gen x was in diapers.

> Social Media is like a skin

Which ironically is what our parents called the "Application layer" when they were designing it ;)

OSI layers were implied. ;)

Incorrectly so :-o

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite#Compar...

Except that it isn't. For example, if everybody in the world opened a single Google Docs document, then the system would break horrendously. This type of software is still very much compartmentalized.

Sounds like it's still a good problem for us to keep working on then :)

I'm just glad our parents didn't develop the office stapler to perfection instead of working on more relevant issues.

I wish they had spent more time on scalable anonymous election systems, but I guess we'll get there eventually.

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