Why the Internet Will Fail (Newsweek 1995)

[RobsanX]

Opps! LOL!

http://threewordchant.com/2010/02/24...ail-from-1995/

[WickedKitchen]

classic!

just like when they advertised satellite radio on terrestrial airwaves...duh.

And before that nobody thought the public would actually pay for cable teevee.

The word smug comes to mind...

[sgreger1]

I remember back in the 90's when we got our first computer and I officially gave up any remnant of what may have been a social life in exchange for video games and the internet. I remember seeing stuff like this all the time, the corporations or the media didn't see the vision most people saw in the internet.

I think it's amazing that the internet has gone from real simple html websites to the point where every business has an online presence, you can shop online, every newspaper and magazine can be read online, plus all the social networking stuff. Sometime I like to check out the "way back engine" to see what stuff looked like at the turn of the century just to remember how basic and awesome it was.

But the death of geocities recently was a sad day for the internet, and under construction banners/dancing hampsters alike.

Does anyone remember the "series of tubes" comment from that one Senator a while back? Lol.

[Mordred]

To be fair though, I remember what the net was like in 1995 and the guy can be forgiven for not having the greatest faith in it. An personally, I'm still not sold on e-books.

[fedora]

Anyone notice that, while the article was in Newsweek, it was actually written by Clifford Stoll, of "The Cuckoos Egg" fame? That was one of the classic tales (real life) of hackers and those who tracked them down, etc. Anyhow - surprising that the article was from him.

[skruf_mcgruff]

To be fair though, I remember what the net was like in 1995 and the guy can be forgiven for not having the greatest faith in it. An personally, I'm still not sold on e-books.

Even as someone who nerds it up regularly I can't read 20 or even 10 pages of an e-book without my eyes hurting, they're one of the few forms of media that I don't think will ever be outsold by a future technology.

[lxskllr]

Even as someone who nerds it up regularly I can't read 20 or even 10 pages of an e-book without my eyes hurting, they're one of the few forms of media that I don't think will ever be outsold by a future technology.

I've never used one, but I thought Eink was supposed to be pretty easy on the eyes.

[sgreger1]

E books are useless untill these tablets start costing less than $300-$1,000.

Audiobooks are where it's at. Can listen while you work.

[Asquar]

To be fair, the comments concerning a "CB radio band-like cacophony" have turned out to be essentially true. There are so many millions of random thoughts posted so diffusely everywhere on the web that, in some ways at least, meaningful information gathering has never been so confusing as it is in the so-called "information" age.

[texasmade]

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