I agree, I haven’t been on there in years, world wide waste.
ckay78 on
r/agedlikemilk
RoyallyOakie on
I give up on it all the time…then come crawling back.
SignInWithApple_TM on
“Five hundred dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said, ‘That is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine.’ A $99 Motorola Q Windows phone is a very capable machine. It will do music. It will do internet. It will do email. It will do instant messaging. I kinda look at that and I say, ‘I like our strategy. I like it a lot.’”
Coinsworthy on
“Online shopping..” what will they come up with next?
YogaNymphNature on
classic example of missed predictions.
Foul-P on
Daily Mail for ya
OnlyMortal666 on
Like the iPod. Who’d want one if those?
TheBossDroid on
Daily mail… Nuff said!
ComradeConrad1 on
It was maybe 1993, I was visiting a customer. He said the world wide web is coming. He said it open up and change the world. He gave me a short overview. I had no idea what he was talking about.
onlycodeposts on
Here’s another article based on that report from the “experts at the Virtual Society Project” that is still online. It’s from 2000 like the article in the post.
In their defense Web 1.0 blew. Dial-up sucked and was so slow. Email and chat rooms were about all the first iteration of the internet was good for. We’re spoiled now- phones provide constant high speed connections and as a population we look for anything to keep our minds busy, if only for a moment. The internet is great, but 90% of the time I use it, it’s a complete waste of time.
Gregbot3000 on
I think if we never got past dial up technology there may have been a chance it would much less utilized. But yeah, the internet was never gonna die off once it was available.
bobisbobson on
Wonder if this was written before HTML.
WittyAndWeird on
When my husband was saying we should get internet for the first time way back in the old days, I asked him, “why do we need the internet?” He still makes fun of me for it.
TheScottishMoscow on
I spent 3 years trying to remove AOL
anferneejefferson on
Inter….net?
Fritzo2162 on
I remember reading articles like that back in the 90s. I was involved in early ISPs, and the push to do cool things overshadowed the available infrastructure at the time. You REALLY had to want something to get it on the Internet.
tecg on
Okay, that take in December 2000 was just dumb. The last year in which that would have maybe been defensible was 1996, I’d say.
Emotional_Buy_701 on
u/RepostSleuthBot
slang_shot on
I mean, we all use the internet.
But we have kind of given up on it
Deep-Raspberry6303 on
Just sad
Cantthinkofnamedamn on
Turns out it was newspapers that were the passing fad
CodeVirus on
This is like me saying that I don’t believe some invention will ever be implemented in real life just to realize that there are 100’s of products built because of that invention.
ThisCarSmellsFunny on
Rather overly posted news article.
Insomniac_Steve on
Daily Mail didn’t like the idea that information would be freely available. They also didn’t like black people, foreigners, gays or poor people. Basically they’re awful, awful people pushing hateful disinformation and propaganda. That pesky internet would make information more freely available than ever before, which is why they didn’t want it to succeed.
TernionDragon on
“Life may be a passing fad as millions give up on it”.
QualityKoalaTeacher on
Half right. A lot of the main things the internet was used for at the time did turn out to be fads. AOL, geocities, torrents.
Social media alongside smartphones changed the whole landscape of what we knew as the internet.
ThisGuyRightHereSaid on
Imo I think porn kept it alive.
InternationalBus8936 on
Fake news.
marklar_the_malign on
As it turns out, printed newspapers end up being the passing fad.
Dan_Glebitz on
Well I for one don’t use it anymore, you can keep your ‘interweb’ or whatever it’s called. I prefer the old system.
Back in the day, there were boards. Bulletin Board Systems. BBS’s. No Net, no Web, no cyberspace, nothing. Just boards, and their ugly stepchildren, D-Dials. All strung together with phone lines, hand-rolled software, and 8-bit computers. No backbone, no hubs, no routers, no DNS tables. Just one computer picking up the phone, calling another, and having a little chat.
So now it is just me and my old 300 Baud Modem and Bulletin Boards 😏
PS: Damn I am really showing my age here!
GirlieButtQueen on
Yeah that’s one big problem today is people believing rumors that fit their worldview, without seeking the truth or evidence
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I agree, I haven’t been on there in years, world wide waste.
r/agedlikemilk
I give up on it all the time…then come crawling back.
“Five hundred dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said, ‘That is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine.’ A $99 Motorola Q Windows phone is a very capable machine. It will do music. It will do internet. It will do email. It will do instant messaging. I kinda look at that and I say, ‘I like our strategy. I like it a lot.’”
“Online shopping..” what will they come up with next?
classic example of missed predictions.
Daily Mail for ya
Like the iPod. Who’d want one if those?
Daily mail… Nuff said!
It was maybe 1993, I was visiting a customer. He said the world wide web is coming. He said it open up and change the world. He gave me a short overview. I had no idea what he was talking about.
Here’s another article based on that report from the “experts at the Virtual Society Project” that is still online. It’s from 2000 like the article in the post.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/05/internetnews.g2
It has several of the same quotes.
In their defense Web 1.0 blew. Dial-up sucked and was so slow. Email and chat rooms were about all the first iteration of the internet was good for. We’re spoiled now- phones provide constant high speed connections and as a population we look for anything to keep our minds busy, if only for a moment. The internet is great, but 90% of the time I use it, it’s a complete waste of time.
I think if we never got past dial up technology there may have been a chance it would much less utilized. But yeah, the internet was never gonna die off once it was available.
Wonder if this was written before HTML.
When my husband was saying we should get internet for the first time way back in the old days, I asked him, “why do we need the internet?” He still makes fun of me for it.
I spent 3 years trying to remove AOL
Inter….net?
I remember reading articles like that back in the 90s. I was involved in early ISPs, and the push to do cool things overshadowed the available infrastructure at the time. You REALLY had to want something to get it on the Internet.
Okay, that take in December 2000 was just dumb. The last year in which that would have maybe been defensible was 1996, I’d say.
u/RepostSleuthBot
I mean, we all use the internet.
But we have kind of given up on it
Just sad
Turns out it was newspapers that were the passing fad
This is like me saying that I don’t believe some invention will ever be implemented in real life just to realize that there are 100’s of products built because of that invention.
Rather overly posted news article.
Daily Mail didn’t like the idea that information would be freely available. They also didn’t like black people, foreigners, gays or poor people. Basically they’re awful, awful people pushing hateful disinformation and propaganda. That pesky internet would make information more freely available than ever before, which is why they didn’t want it to succeed.
“Life may be a passing fad as millions give up on it”.
Half right. A lot of the main things the internet was used for at the time did turn out to be fads. AOL, geocities, torrents.
Social media alongside smartphones changed the whole landscape of what we knew as the internet.
Imo I think porn kept it alive.
Fake news.
As it turns out, printed newspapers end up being the passing fad.
Well I for one don’t use it anymore, you can keep your ‘interweb’ or whatever it’s called. I prefer the old system.
Back in the day, there were boards. Bulletin Board Systems. BBS’s. No Net, no Web, no cyberspace, nothing. Just boards, and their ugly stepchildren, D-Dials. All strung together with phone lines, hand-rolled software, and 8-bit computers. No backbone, no hubs, no routers, no DNS tables. Just one computer picking up the phone, calling another, and having a little chat.
So now it is just me and my old 300 Baud Modem and Bulletin Boards 😏
PS: Damn I am really showing my age here!
Yeah that’s one big problem today is people believing rumors that fit their worldview, without seeking the truth or evidence