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cobbzillatoday at 12:22 AM2 repliesview on HN

It was even worse in the 90s/00s - on Windows, the IE browser icon was literally labeled “The Internet”

iirc there was a story in The Onion about someone who “accidentally deleted The Internet” on their Windows system and the whole Internet stopped working. They were so sorry, maybe it was in the Recycle Bin, there was still hope for the world, lol


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WestCoadertoday at 1:02 AM

This, Jen...is The Internet.

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iansteyntoday at 1:22 AM

There’s this: [All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash | The Onion](https://youtu.be/lvpuT3aoypE?si=UI8wTzkNXdEKMO4x) which is pretty funny but doesn’t contain the idea of moving the internet into the trash bin… I feel like I remember that from somewhere too though