the_dunk_tank
It's the dunk tank.
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Electricity changed where you could put factories and by extension everything that interacts with them. Electricity single-handedly brought an end to the age of whaling. Electricity brought human communication to nearly the speed of light which is the speed of thought. Electricity is what allows us to record the human voice. Nearly all recorded music is only here because of electricity.
The internet is basically just tv 2.0 (which is itself radio 2.0, famous electric marvel) with a layer of tech arbitrage on top.
A technology that changed how we create and distribute energy down to becoming synonymous with the word “power”, to the extent that it radically reshaped the geography of every nation on the planet earth is not the skeezy parlor trick of computerized mass media.
The internet has such a massive impact on society as a whole. You can look up anything you want. Want to learn how to change the brake cable on an 83 mazda truck? Theres a video. Etc. Etc. Etc. Maybe your taking the access to basic information that not long ago was extremely difficult to find for granted.
I’m not.
Before there even was an internet as we know it the local library had the chiltons manual for that truck. I know because I had a b series and went to the library for the chiltons manual.
Those sections are always big and neighboring counties will collude to make sure they have all the cars covered because it’s such popular information.
There is fantastic potential in the idea of the internet, but what is it? It’s mass media.
Even if it wasn’t and you could fight agent smith inside the matrix and win, the technology that fundamentally changed where people could live and under what limitations is a bigger deal than the one that saves you a trip to the library.
E: sorry if this comes off argumentative. “Electricity is more important than the internet” has some startup lag but the damage is good, it’s got plenty of reach, good hitboxes and can break guards at the end of combos. Once you add in the option to cancel into a roll with iframes it’s hard not to come out a little aggressive.