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Yes, the differences are fascinating, I know Minitel was big in France. To my mind it was Freeserve that brought the internet to the masses in the UK (and spawned many dozens of similar ISPs in the late-90s), but seems to be a bit of a footnote now. My peers first started messaging through YIM (Yahoo! Instant Messenger) before MSN took over as the default. I remember AOL was perceived as an expensive ISP which limited the popularity of AIM.

Is this mainly a US-centric take though? In the UK, yes we had AOL here and a fair number of people I knew had it, but it was never dominant as far as I could tell (I'd be happy to be corrected, I only came in around 1997). It was MSN messenger that became established as the dominant instant messenger here by about 2000, I don't really remember too many people using AIM.

My parents would send me to school with peanut butter and Marmite sandwiches. Slightly annoying that just because there's a ready-mixed version that people are now acting like it's a new thing, but at least more people get to experience it.

All other pizzas are worse than pineapple on pizza.

Now I wonder if pineapple, beans, and sausage would work.

Honestly that sounds not much different to when I was at school, in the UK, 30 years ago, especially when it comes to supply teachers.

Best controllers ever, in my opinion.

No milk for me, I don't think that's covered by the chart.

Just Thunderbird is fine for me, has all the features I want and I already get my email there (but even if I didn't I'd struggle to find an RSS reader with its features).

Downvotes are disabled on Beehaw, we don't see them even on communities on other instances. I find it makes it a much more pleasant experience.

I test-drove TW for a few months a year or so ago (Leap struck me as too slow). While it's a viable alternative to Fedora it wasn't for me. My main problem was, being a rolling distro, the fact that major updates could occur any day of the week, which could be time-consuming to install or they could change the features of the OS. It always presented a dilemma of whether to hold back updates which might include holding back critical updates.

So rolling distros aren’t for me, while OpenSUSE puts a lot of emphasis on testing and reliability with TW, the reality is I much prefer the release cycle and philosophy of Fedora, I think that strikes the best balance.

Since I did my test-drive, OpenSUSE now has "Slowroll" which is a slower TW with major updates occurring less frequently. That might be worth having a look at some day (but I'm only looking out of curiosity, I'm very happy with Fedora honestly).

They deteriorate with time but that said I have tapes from the 80s that are still playable. I'm not sure if there's a worse rate for that timespan compared to disc-rot for CDs, or failures of digital drives. What ever the format I guess the key is to do backups.

OpenSUSE, it's what I'd be using if Fedora didn't exist.