• FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I know people who don’t know what an Ethernet cable is.

    Internet = wifi / mobile data. And that’s it as far as they are concerned

    Routers, modems, switches, bandwidth, Ethernet etc. That’s all just mysterious mumbo jumbo nerd shit. They only know that wifi = the symbol on their phone and that it makes their apps load. It’s crazy.

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      8 months ago

      This is my wife.

      She calls mobile data “wifi”

      She calls the internet “the wifi” when talking about our specific connection. “is the wifi bill paid yet” even when talking about the internet on my ethernet connections, it’s still “the wifi”