Thread:Trope Workshop talk:Older Than Internet/Maybe it would be a good idea to choose a title with a less ambiguous starting date/reply (6)

"After September"?

No, really, how about your suggestion, "Older than the Web". The page itself will clarify the more exact date, but most people will get the idea. And like any clear dividing line, there might be a few exceptions. Though honestly, I doubt many tropes came out of CERN in the early 90s.

I'm pretty sure that in the distant future, schoolchildren will remember that the internet became common in "about 2000". That is, unless they remember the mnemonic, "In nineteen-ninety three, Berners-Lee set info free".