2000 newspaper claiming internet was 'a passing fad' resurfaces amid LLM doubt
felpix_ · x · 2026-11-09
When a poster asked "LLMs have existed for years — where's the big thing they've done for society?", the perfect reply was a December 2000 Daily Mail clipping headlined "Internet 'may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it'." The meme neatly mocks today's LLM skepticism by echoing how wrong similar takes on the internet were 25 years ago.
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