A joke about getting food “online” was posted on Reddit—3amjokes on November 16, 2021:
“Fishing poles were the first tools used to get food online.”
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Posted by u/GrimmRetails November 16, 2021
Fishing poles were the first tools used to get food online.
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Leewenkampiun
That explains why it eventually became the Net.
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