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Nostradameous of the Internet . . . 33 years ago [PICS]

squareamerica.com — It's 1975 and this man is about to show you the future of the internet.

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  • ToeCracker, on 07/24/2008, -1/+10Wow . . . theses predictions would have seemed to dumb in 1975, people would have thought the guy was crazy!
    • Charlotte_Web, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Read the Wikipedia definition of "online" and "offline":

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online

      Notably, these two:

      * Available for immediate use on demand by the system without human intervention
      * Functional and ready for service

      I'm going to guess that "online" in this context means dumb terminals connecting directly to the database server, which was fairly common in the 70'sand 80's. Dumb terminals supplanted punch cards in the 70's, so this slide show is a sales pitch to companies still using punch cards.
  • ironeus, on 08/01/2008, -0/+6That's quite the visionary. Did you see the size of those keyboards :)
  • h3lx, on 07/24/2008, -4/+2HAWAII 5.0 GOES 2.0 IN A NO FOLDS BARRED LAYOUT SMACKSTRAVAGANZA!!!!!

    nice find.


  • SpillReviews, on 07/24/2008, -1/+7BOLDER!
  • beerncheese, on 07/24/2008, -0/+10I feel like the guy forced to watch the movies in "A Clockwork Orange."
  • UnFriendlyFire, on 07/24/2008, -4/+1"Online"
    "Storage"
    "Wide Ties"
    "Bolder"
  • BigTuna99, on 07/24/2008, -7/+2All your Data Base are belong to us....
  • skabyss, on 07/24/2008, -5/+2So which one of you fine diggers is going to make a techno-themed video clip with he original footage from this blinking in a seizure-inducing fashion?
  • theNthDoctor, on 07/24/2008, -5/+1The DECISION to DECIDE ... Online!!! LOL it's even kinda disco. Wow, what a relic.
  • unicronband, on 07/24/2008, -4/+1http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c172/***** ...
  • DeskFlyer, on 07/25/2008, -1/+1It's like subliminal advertising, but without the seizure.
  • salvisa, on 07/25/2008, -1/+0In 1975, the word "online" meant something completely different than it means now. Back then, "online" meant that a device or system was in a ready state. For example, a printer that was "online" was ready to receive printing instructions from the computer it was connected to. When it was done, it went "offlne".

    Also, "virtual storage" may sound modern, but if I recall, that was basically RAM (as opposed to the then-common magnetic tape reels).

    It's a cool set of slides, but if you tried to describe the web and cloud computing to a bunch of IBM engineers in 1975, they would have smiled and gone back to their punch cards and sliderules.
  • Pobotrol, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1HOT JOB!
  • TheGooseyOne, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2That "Database" picture is like a meme waiting to happen.
  • Arcesius, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Man, that just makes me really excited about what thirty years from now is going to look like... what with that looking so old and all... ***** sweetness
  • Cz088, on 07/28/2008, -1/+0He's mad !! Theres a women on that computer
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