Apparently April 7th 1969 is a contender for the birth of the internet, who new it was so old. Here’s a pretty funny video from Canadian CBC news, not sure when this was broadcast but it is pretty damn funny.
Another wonderful throwback news story is this Newsweek piece from 1995 called “The Internet? Bah! Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn’t, and will never be, nirvana
Baloney. Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.
The thing that continues to blow me away is still how early and nascent internet technology is, I don’t know what the future holds but i’m certain that in 10 years we will look back on the hype around social networks like facebook and myspace, thinking “oh how naive we were”.
congratulations Al Gore
I read the Newsweek article - incredible. Not only could can we look at it today and laugh at how incredibly incorrect its predictions were but realize how far tech has come in just over a decade. Everything on the net isn’t good, far from it, but I wouldn’t give it up.