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Author Topic: Internet won't amount to anything  (Read 1255 times)

keefe

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Internet won't amount to anything
« on: March 02, 2015, 11:03:08 AM »
Newsweek reprints column from 20 years ago on value of the www

http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirvana-185306



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Re: Internet won't amount to anything
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2015, 11:48:36 AM »
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So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month?

That was awesome.  I would like to see the comparison graph then and now.

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Re: Internet won't amount to anything
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2015, 12:16:07 PM »

"What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is that the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness"

I agree on that point, you internet hucksters!

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Re: Internet won't amount to anything
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2015, 12:46:50 PM »
Newsweek reprints column from 20 years ago on value of the www

http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirvana-185306



21 years ago I was at IU and took a HTML course around this www thing.  A year later, I was creating Marquette athletics first web page and cutting deals with Mark Cuban to broadcast our games on the internet.  Fun times.

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Re: Internet won't amount to anything
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2015, 02:17:39 PM »
"Logged onto the World Wide Web, 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 connections, try again later.'"



I got the answer in 0.48 seconds.
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Re: Internet won't amount to anything
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2015, 04:07:17 PM »
21 years ago I was at IU and took a HTML course around this www thing.  A year later, I was creating Marquette athletics first web page and cutting deals with Mark Cuban to broadcast our games on the internet.  Fun times.

I had heard that you teamed with Al Gore to invent the Internet!
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Re: Internet won't amount to anything
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2015, 04:09:44 PM »
The internet, another creation we can thank the United States military for.   ARPANET to internet.

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Re: Internet won't amount to anything
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2015, 10:15:26 PM »
The internet, another creation we can thank the United States military for.   ARPANET to internet.

Well, Cisco, and a few others helped a bit.   :)
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Re: Internet won't amount to anything
« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2015, 10:48:46 PM »
I had heard that you teamed with Al Gore to invent the Internet!

You heard wrong.  Besides, Brandx or someone here will go crazy if you say that about Albert.

UCLA had a lot to do with along with the gov't and some other institutions.