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Comment Funny how spin-doctoring works for Google ... (Score 1) 807

and nobody calls them on it.

OK, so maybe the guy/team doing the cutesy web comic are just too young or ignorant of things that occurred before their time, but the statement:

"People are watching and uploading videos, chatting with each other, playing web-based games⦠All these things didnâ(TM)t exist when the first browsers were created."

is either pure BS or just plain ignorance.

It's sort of obvious that they don't know anything about Usenet and the (in)famous alt.binary.* groups where pictures, music, programs, etc. were uploaded years before there were web browsers.

There were also several ways to chat via the Internet that existed prior to web browsers (Usenet groups, bulletin boards, services like AOL, GEnieNet, CompuServe, etc.).

It's sort of overstating the obvious that you couldn't play web-based games before there were web browsers (duh), but to imply that people weren't playing games over the internet before web browsers either indicates complete ignorance by confusing the Internet with the Web (which seems to be a common trend these days) or just plain, outright dishonesty.

Maybe Google needs to have its employees learn how to do the basic research associated with due diligence before it allows its employees to embarrass it with this sort of outright fabrication. But then again, it's all about the spin.......

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