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by gumby 1255 days ago
Ultra trivial, but props to the author for understanding the world (emphasis mine):

> Since the introduction of this corrugated vessel, humanity has landed on the moon, rolled out the internet, created cellphones,

OK, technically the idea of the existence of an Internet dates to the mid-late 70s in a couple of papers from Cerf et al but the ARPANET was its natural progenitor, and Lick and Taylor's effort was contemporaneous with the corrugated pizza box.

It always jars me when people write that the Internet (or worse, "the internet") was "invented" in the 90s, or simply assume that the www and the Internet are completely coextensional.