Most users do not change from defaults at scale. This is partly a truism since users would reject bad defaults, forcing change or loss of market share at the limit -- but for things like tracking protection, the unseen vs. seen, it's hard for users to know what they are missing.
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Replying to @BrendanEich @brave
Most users don't even bother to change their browser.
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Replying to @coldbrewme @brave
That's true until it isn't, or we would all be using IE^H^HNetscape^H^H^H^H^H^H^HMosaic, for increasingly smaller set-size values of "we". :-|
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Replying to @LibertyFarmNH @BrendanEich and
It's not uncommon among those of us who used to spend time on the internet using Mosaic^H^H^H^H Usenet ^H^H^H FTP ^H^H^H^H UUCP.
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Replying to @fixer3999 @Padre35 and
UUNET was not UUCP -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUNET . Many "tty" device drivers or "line disciplines" or (later) streams modules in Golden Age used "backspace" as Delete key and echoed it as ^H. So you'd see this when telnet'ing into a remote system, even if your OS used Delete.
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Replying to @BrendanEich @Padre35 and
Yep. Remember telneting into port 25 to send mail when emacs mail mode was misbehaving, etc.
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Replying to @fixer3999 @Padre35 and
2500 baud? LUXURY. My first modem was 300 bd and an old black phone - identical to this picture. ATDP5551234 (yes, P for pulse ... it was years til be got DTMF service )pic.twitter.com/5aYYvOREPm
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2400 bd was amazing - it printed characters FASTER than I could read, no slower
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