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graeme on May 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: I'm leaving the Internet for a year

I've noticed that the web has gotten more useful. Google has an answer for more and more things. Wikipedia covers more topics. The qualitative difference is real, but hard to measure, because we can't search the web as it was in 2004, using the google of 2004.

I know I only went halfway back. If you go to 1995, there's a whole class of services that didn't exist.

cpeterso on May 1, 2012 [–]

Yeah, Wikipedia would be a pretty big "future shock" (though more social than technological).

And another social surprise would be Facebook because of the number of non-techies using the Internet.

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