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This is really nonsensical. It could fit on a piece of paper in font size 8 if you go back far enough and “stretch” the definition of Internet.

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Not true. The first document on the internet was, in fact, 7 pages in 8pt font.

It was the New Purchase brochure from a Packard Bell 286 4MHz from Circuit City transcribed into .doc format.

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Yeah, but if you wrote really small on a note card you could have used the entire internet on a test!

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And were all 7 of those pages uploaded at the same time? Ha, gotchu now! (But for real, is .doc that old?)

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According to wikipedia, “Microsoft has used the extension since 1983.”

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Lol, no idea

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First spam

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“Congratulations on buying a Packard Bell computer. Would you like to register me?”

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This is actually exactly why I love the internet

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