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by throw0101c 405 days ago
> You weren't available all the time then. It was perfectly natural to assume someone wasn't at their computer and that was perfectly ok.

Someone made the observation back then that 'the less you talk about "being online", the more important it will be'. Nowadays, because of IP-over-radio (smartphones) we're all basically online all the time (which has been true to a certain extent for a while with (dumb) phones and SMS/texting).

But it goes further now with many more ways of interaction.