How old am I?

I'm so old I remember when Google search provided more value than surveillance advertising.

I'm so old I remember when an operating system was not considered an advertising platform.

I'm so old I remember when "Artificial Intelligence" was a serious enquiry filled with brilliant people, and not a scam machine populated by sleazebags.

I'm so old I remember when "user" didn't mean "product".

I'm so old I remember when "corporation" didn't mean "person".

@jens @dat @GeePawHill why would we need un-natural people? Can a legal but not natural person be punished, how would they be jailed? You can’t compel them with force ( the backstop to any authority) so you created a “person” that you can’t control. Every company should have one individual who owns it and is responsible for the actions of that company. If they break the law that person is responsible and takes the punishment.

@GeePawHill I distinctly remember someone telling me about this "Wikipedia" thing and me thinking it was the stupidest idea I'd ever heard of - who's going to write stuff for a free encyclopedia? And who the hell is going to use it? How could it ever grow to be a significant size?

Yeah OK I was just a teensy bit wrong about that.

@TomF @GeePawHill I remember when I first heard about Wikipedia, and I thought, "If this works out, printed encyclopædias are over." It did work out.