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   Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 03:20:46 JST Lauren Weinstein

   Long, long ago, in the early days of Internet's ancestor the Defense Department ARPANET, I was interviewed at UCLA (by some media outlet, I don't remember which) about my work at ARPANET site #1 at UCLA, literally the first site on what would become the Internet. This would have been probably in the mid-70s or so.

   And I was asked if I thought this kind of technology would ever be used by the public at large.

   So I thought about it for a few seconds and I replied that yeah, the public would eventually have access to these kinds of capabilities, though it would take quite a few years to get there. And then I added words along the lines of, "And I'm sure they'll find a way to completely muck it up."