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Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you're the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3245/
Randall isn't saying that the internet is only 24 (I mean, he's been making xkcd for 20 years and was on it before that). He's saying that his mental conception of the internet is still "new exciting thing," and the fact that it's been around for 24 years means that he's currently being haunted.
And as someone who read xkcd as a teenager, I feel the opposite, it feels like it's always been here
Interesting. I'm probably only a few years older than you, and even though I started reading xkcd in college (probably about 2-3 years after it started), it somehow simultaneously seems like a scrappy startup comic just coming into its own, and also a venerable internet institution.
Oh xkcd feels that way to me, but the internet doesn't