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My mom and dad don't know what a browser is. This is not fantasy or creative editing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ

If so, so many people don't know what a browser is, you can only image how smooth a distributed social network would have to be to work.

Bit torrent works because it's three steps: 1. Download a bit torrent client, 2. Search Pirate Bay, 3. Click on the torrent. Occasionally, you hear the failure mode: why won't this stupid thing download? The only people who say things like "More people need to seed this" are tech literate.




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