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If anything we should applaud how flexible modern software can to accommodate a user.

I still remember a time before tabbed browsing existed.



> I still remember a time before tabbed browsing existed.

To be fair, it wasn’t actually that long ago :) (or maybe I’m just old too?)


Browser tabs were invented about “25% of the average human lifespan” years ago. I think that classifies as “long ago” :)

A bit of a scary way to measure time, I definitely feel old now.


Yeah, but that’s not beyond the memory of the average person. Usually phrases like “I remember a time before” prefix something that most people weren’t alive for.

That all said, it’s still longer than I thought. Time flys!




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