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Yep yep -- agreed

I've been helping onboard newbies to various Internet things, going all the way back to explaining email to baffled colleagues in the 90s, and going to their houses one by one to help configure the TCP/IP settings on their ISP dialup software lol

Technology never goes mass until it develops incredibly smooth ways for non-nerdy newcomers to jump in. Mastodon isn't there yet ...

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Clive Thompson
Clive Thompson

Written by Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net

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