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    What fact makse you feel old?

    Posts: 4,698 Member
    edited December 2024 in Chit-Chat
    I graduated from my IT degree the year Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web :laugh:

    Can you imagine doing an IT degree, or in fact anything, without a readily-accessible internet?

    Edit: I hate the fact you can't edit badly-spelled topic headers :explode:

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      Hmm. I graduated high school 15 years ago......None of the other two apply to me.

      It's the 80's rock music that is played on a "Classic Rock" station here.
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