• Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de
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    language => written down language => widespread literacy => affordable information (printing press) => internet => hypertext websites => search engines.

    we went from struggeling to keep our knowledge arround to having access to almost the entire sum of human knowledge in a mostly convenient manner.

    • Praise Idleness@sh.itjust.works
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      search engines(accessible with giant, wired computers, slow as fuck) => search engines(often times literally more accesible than water. enshittified as hell)