How much better would the world be today if this had never been invented?
people weren't any less stupid. we just weren't aware of it
We already had the public switched telephone network for international communications, you mean the World Wide Web?
>>109883085The history of communication networks ( now called internet) is much more complicated. Just removing one step wont change the long-term outcome.
>>109883085No difference whatsoever
>>109883085Not at all better. People are just fundamentally bad.
The internet isn't the problem, its all the trash platforms, social media, cell phones that have "captured" the masses.The internet itself is perfectly splendid.
>>109883447>platforms, social media, cell phonesIn a word, capitalism.The internet as a technology is communist.
>>109883447ThisUp to 2012-2013ish things were fine, then the soiphone gave access to the internet to the third world + fluoridated normies that had been getting filtered by desktops/laptops before>>109884384Take meds and take your politics with you back to bunkerchan, tranny
>>109884433>Up to 2012-2013ish things were finenah, '09 was the end of the beginning of the end, and things already weren't fine in '01
Every technology that exists HAD to be invented, because each new technology is just the result of a simple process of optimizing efficiency of performing a given task.
>>109883224This is the correct answer. This is pretty much irrelevant to the current state of things. Everything else world have been invented sooner rather than later and world have converged on the same standards anyway
>>109883085The French would have invented the internet first as some offshoot of Minitel
>>109883171WWW was 1993ARPANET was 1946
>>109884384Women and jeets
