To put it into perspective, the Internet was conceived in the early 60's, it went live in 1969, it converted to modern Internet protocols in 1983, commercial traffic was permitted on it in 1989, the same year the web was invented. Broadband was born in the late 90's and Google didn't exist until 1998.
Mobile Internet started as a protocol called WAP on dumb phones on 2G networks in 1999. Smart phones came around 2001, the iPhone launched in 2007, Bitcoin launched in 2009. NOSTR launched in 2020.
WE ARE STILL EARLY
mike
npub1aq…c237n
2025-05-20 07:55:16
in reply to nevent1q…2dav
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2025-05-20 07:55:16Event JSON
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