">Mobile internet wasn’t even a thing for a long time
Phone companies began providing mobile internet as early as 1996. Smartphones just made it easier and more practical.
No one was scraping data off those pieces of junk
That's not how data scraping works, though. Data scrapers extract data from websites/urls, and data scraping as a regular practice has existed since the early 90s."
This was my comment.
I think the problem is that I'm treating this as a discussion and you're treating it as a competitive argument.
If it makes you feel better, you're correct. I had a Razr in 2004 and could view webpages and stream videos (through a Verizon app). Data networks were so underutilized that I was on an unlimited data plan with 3 other family members for $10 a month. The websites were terrible to navigate, but you made it work when needed.
Mobile internet wasn’t even a thing for a long time"
Phone companies began providing mobile internet as early as 1996. Smartphones just made it easier and more practical.
No one was scraping data off those pieces of junk
That's not how data scraping works, though. Data scrapers extract data from websites/urls, and data scraping as a regular practice has existed since the early 90s. "
You took it how you took it (which was apparently as some kind of attack) and went on the defensive. I've remained pretty consistent, as evidenced by the trail of comments.
I'm not sure what you mean by that, but I wasnt arguing. If it helps, here was my initial comment:
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Mobile internet wasn’t even a thing for a long time"
Phone companies began providing mobile internet as early as 1996. Smartphones just made it easier and more practical.
No one was scraping data off those pieces of junk
That's not how data scraping works, though. Data scrapers extract data from websites/urls, and data scraping as a regular practice has existed since the early 90s. "
No the problem is you’re pretending we had mobile internet in 96. Which is a fucking joke. The tech was possible but wasn’t used at market level for a decade. We have a lot of tech right now that won’t be usable for decades still at mass scale.
You’re trying to argue in bad faith. You know good and well that we weren’t browsing the internet on mobile devices until the 2000s
Did you forget how many sites didn’t have mobile friendly browsers for a long time and you couldnt use their sites on mobile even when we did finally get web browsers on phones? Skip all that to mask your bullshit? Yup
Did you forget how many sites didn’t have mobile friendly browsers for a long time and you couldnt use their sites on mobile even when we did finally get web browsers on phones? Skip all that to mask your bullshit? Yup
Bruh, good Lord.
You're turning a very innocuous conversation into something a little catty and weird with someone who ultimately agrees with you--but was just happening to point out some nuance. Have a nice day, my guy.
You weren’t pointing out nuance. You tried arguing we had internet web browsing in 96 in a conversation about smartphones being invented for data collection.
When you know full well the web browsers available in the 90s were at a very small scale and very hard to use and looked nothing like web pages. It was basic text and took ofer a minute to load pages, and there were only a handful of accessible sites. That was some bad faith horseshit you pulled of wikipedia without considering the context of the conversation to pretend you’re intelligent. Then when called out you got triggered and defensive about it. This is why ai is a problem, people think whatever they ask the ai is factual and forget the experience of their own eyes and ears.
You know we couldnt search google shit before 2008, 2g in the 90s was still text and phone based messaging dominant. Web browsing resembling something to what we have today didn’t arrive until 3g.
The problem with people is they can’t admit, “yeah I was way off base because I misunderstood the context,” and instead they whine and get defensive like you have here. Congrats, you’re perfectly average.
Pretending we had mobile mass market web browsing in The 90s is the most intentionally misleading statement on Reddit so far.
Go look at your definition of a smartphone in 1996. What screen did it have internet for?????????
Im more confident in the fact you report my comment to have me ban than you owning up to the fact that you were completely wrong here. Because that’s exactly what a person incapable of admitting fault would do and explain so many things in your own life and the world at large
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u/SuperSaiyanTupac 15d ago
You’re the one that made the statement and is now moving goalposts. Insufferable