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		gamble on July 7, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1995: The Internet? Bah Though most fads are not trends and most trends are not fads, there are the occasional instances like the Internet circa 1995 that are both fads and trends. The fallacy of youth is to treat all fads as trends; the fallacy of age is to ignore all trends as fads.

metageek on July 7, 2010 [–]

I'm stealing that second sentence for my .sig randomizer. (With attribution.)

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