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- newznozzl, on 03/23/2008, -8/+523"Then there's cyberbusiness. We're promised instant catalog shopping--just point and click for great deals. We'll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month?"
LOL... - guestaccount, on 03/23/2008, -5/+257I love the irony of the typo in this line:
"What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is tht the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness." - zelig, on 03/23/2008, -4/+203"...you can't tote that laptop to the beach".
- chrissku, on 03/23/2008, -3/+182I remember going into a Hollywood Video about 10 years ago and I was chatting with the manager at the counter and I commented on how neat dvd's were. He told me "DVDs will never overtake the VCR." It's funny how much can change before you know it!
- FallenHero, on 03/23/2008, -7/+184On the contrary, I learn most of my stuff from Wiki and CDs rather than teachers.
- johnn11238, on 03/23/2008, -2/+170So funny. It's amazing that the author doesn't consider that the internet and other technology might...umm..improve? I also love the comment about the indispensable SALESPERSON!
- flmumb, on 03/23/2008, -6/+168What the hell is the internet?
- ghettodev, on 03/23/2008, -2/+162If he knew the Digg comment section was coming he would have killed himself.
- hawks5999, on 03/23/2008, -18/+159Required reading for everyone.
- inactive, on 03/23/2008, -4/+141It only there was a way to filter the data on the internet. Maybe some sort of wesite where stories and sites of interest are submitted and the users of the website vote on them. Nah, that would never fly.
Of course, this was also written before google existed. Remember searching with Lycos? - PotentChr0nic, on 03/23/2008, -3/+129Dugg for its comical value
Why the Linux Section though? - inactive, on 08/26/2008, -1/+123lol @ the irony that THIS is on the Internet.
- boombume, on 03/23/2008, -5/+126The real irony here is the fact that THE INTERNET is what allows us to know what a moron he was back in 1995.. otherwise no one would ever know.
- alex7575, on 03/23/2008, -1/+120It's almost as if he foresaw what the internet would become and wrote an article with a huge "/sarcasm" tag at the end...but without the tag...
- Aeuta, on 03/23/2008, -7/+122Someone needs to get the writer to revisit his conclusions...some to a small extent are still true but overall, you totally got it wrong mate.
- mzito, on 03/23/2008, -0/+99The really depressing thing about this article is that the guy who wrote it, Cliff Stoll, is the author of "The Cuckoo's Egg". It's the true story of how he went from being an astronomer to a developer at his university, and then realized that hackers were using the university's computers to attempt to hack into various government agencies. It's a great book, especially if you're interested in how the pre-Internet multi-site networks worked.
Why is it so depressing? Here's a guy who is bright, funny, articulate, and a pretty decent writer who instead of seeing the potential of the Internet, dismisses it, when he first-hand saw how powerful even the networks before the Internet could be. - jetblackstrat, on 03/23/2008, -2/+100It's just interesting, all of his assumptions are based on what the internet was like in 1995: there really wasn't any way to do good online shopping or a secure transfer of money for example. BUT! Isn't the point of making predictions to think about what is GOING to happen, not what you've got right now? I be he's red in the face right now.
- reddikilowatt, on 03/23/2008, -4/+89Because 1995 was the year of Linux on the desktop.... Duh!
- compuwarescc, on 03/23/2008, -9/+78I might just be crazy, but I'm pretty sure the sales made on the internet worldwide in a month (or an hour for that matter) trounce his local mall's afternoon sales.
- TheSabre, on 03/23/2008, -2/+70Funny, because Amazon.com was launched in 1995. Perhaps he should have waited it out a few months before writing his story.
- taintedzodiac, on 03/23/2008, -1/+67Well, I'd love to read the article, but unfortunately there just isn't any way for the Internet to duplicate a copy of Newsweek and make it available on my computer. I've been looking for that back issue for HOURS.
If only there were a website where people could point other people to unedited news that's interesting, all while using anonymous handles. - Wartz, on 03/23/2008, -2/+67"I hunt for the date of the Battle of Trafalgar. Hundreds of files show up, and it takes 15 minutes to unravel them--one's a biography written by an eighth grader, the second is a computer game that doesn't work and the third is an image of a London monument. None answers my question, and my search is periodically interrupted by messages like, "Too many connectios, try again later."
I get a dozen relevant webpages with google on the front page of the search "battle of trafalgar date"
Google has saved the internets! - inactive, on 08/26/2008, -9/+73All your learning are belong to The Internets.
- boombume, on 03/23/2008, -0/+61The Internet is a communication tool used the world over where people can come together to bitch about movies and share pornography with one another.
- SQLserver, on 03/23/2008, -9/+70Because the Internet runs on Linux. I thought everybody knew that.
- mjoe, on 03/23/2008, -0/+59Maybe spellcheck wasn't invented back then.
- brstilson, on 03/23/2008, -1/+60"We're promised instant catalog shopping--just point and click for great deals. We'll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet--which there isn't--the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople."
Seriously, this guy was a piece of work. It's as if he couldn't imagine the internet...uhmmm.....IMPROVING or EVOLVING in any way. Yeah, because the internet isn't popular in 1995, it will NEVER be popular. I'd love to travel back in time and talk to this guy. I'd tell him that I do most of my shopping online. I'd tell him I don't buy CDs anymore, I just don't. I don't need to, not when Amazon sells DRM-free MP3s for $9 an album. I'd tell him that I bought my 47" HDTV online and it turned out great. I'd tell him I LOVED the fact that I didn't have pesky salespeople around to push add-ons like overpriced cables, surge protectors, and extended warranties.
I'd tell him about Paypal and Google Checkout, and that the chances of your credit card information getting stolen over the internet now are about the chances of it getting stolen in real life, if you're not stupid enough to give it to phishing sites.
This guy made the mistake of assuming the internet was never going to change from being a glorified bulletin board. - ireland88, on 03/23/2008, -7/+66I know my mac book air is way to heavy.
- SSUK, on 03/23/2008, -0/+59The internet isn't a big truck, it's a mother ***** unedited ocean.
- Merick, on 03/23/2008, -2/+57Yeah, I just realized this was from 1995. I am the bozo.
- bsmang, on 03/23/2008, -12/+59A lot more people might still be Bush supporters if they had to rely on only their local newspapers...
- paulney, on 03/23/2008, -6/+52I bet he feels stupider than that time Peter locked his keys out of the car!
- SenorCardgage74, on 03/23/2008, -0/+44I put on my robe and wizard hat
- Orangutan, on 03/23/2008, -3/+47april 2005? are you sure? i was definitely using digital cameras at the latest in 2000... did you mean 1995? maybe i'm hallucinating but i think your year is off
- reddikilowatt, on 03/23/2008, -0/+43http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZb0avfQme8 (not rickroll, I promise).
- Magillicutti, on 03/23/2008, -4/+46***** you ain't got no macbook air
- GeyserShitdick, on 03/23/2008, -0/+41Anyway, if anyone's interested in Mr. Stoll's book, "Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway," you can pick it up for 1 cent (used) on amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Snake-Oil-Thoughts-I ... - kinerry, on 03/23/2008, -5/+44What the "*****" is the internet
- Haz3rd, on 03/23/2008, -1/+38A series of tubes which are apparently filled with an unedited ocean.
- thredden, on 03/23/2008, -3/+40Clifford Stoll, you have been pwned.
- hartley, on 03/23/2008, -0/+36Ahh, 1995. When the term "Information Super Highway" was still a viable. (if it ever was..)
- SQLserver, on 03/23/2008, -3/+39He does have 1 good point-
I can't stand reading a book, especially a novel on my PC. I don't know, but I just really can't concentrate or enjoy(even non-fiction) when reading on a PC for a long period of time. - brstilson, on 03/23/2008, -1/+37I always lol at people who think technology will always stay the same.
Now, to watch my 200-line, 5" screen, mechanical television! - DephexTwin, on 03/23/2008, -0/+36Uh... this article is from 1995. I don't think 56k modems were around then. There was no Google and the modern World Wide Web was in its infancy. It's small-minded of him to think that the Internet wasn't going to expand unbelievably, but he was describing the Internet fairly accurately at that time.
And yes, there was an Internet back in 88, and in fact, this guy is talking about the mid-70s; there was an Internet then, too. Just no World Wide Web then. - AROZ, on 03/23/2008, -0/+35They actually have it on computers now.
- plbland, on 03/23/2008, -3/+37April 2005? Am I missing something?
- needleboy, on 03/23/2008, -1/+35Dude... 1995...
- hendriks, on 03/23/2008, -2/+35"Too many connectios, try again later." LOL, I think checking your spelling was only invented in 1996 or so...
- mediaspree, on 03/23/2008, -0/+31Funny thing is, he probably makes his income as a "blogger" here in 2008.
- unr1, on 03/23/2008, -1/+31***** ain't got no grammar skills either
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