Hey, we had agriculture, so it was neolithic at the earliest, and I'd dispute even that! (Actually, the way I think of it, there never was a "stone age of the Internet", because we'd already moved out of "the stone age of 'the net'" before the Internet became the Internet.)
I didn't have to go out and hunt/gather my flamage; I could harvest a crop delivered to me in the form of Usenet groups, and I could sow seeds of flamage and know that a fresh crop would grow, so we had agriculture. Furthermore, I was using C news, with 'rn' and 'vnews' -- nice metal tools -- and I think it was just after the Line Eater was slain, so I don't think it counts as stone age. Pbbbbt!!!
(Okay, I was in a primitive corner, but I knew the trade routes (paths to gateways) that would take my goods to the Arpanet, CSnet, and BITnet.)
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I didn't have to go out and hunt/gather my flamage; I could harvest a crop delivered to me in the form of Usenet groups, and I could sow seeds of flamage and know that a fresh crop would grow, so we had agriculture. Furthermore, I was using C news, with 'rn' and 'vnews' -- nice metal tools -- and I think it was just after the Line Eater was slain, so I don't think it counts as stone age. Pbbbbt!!!
(Okay, I was in a primitive corner, but I knew the trade routes (paths to gateways) that would take my goods to the Arpanet, CSnet, and BITnet.)