Why the Internet will Never be Successful

[Tyguy]

From an article written in 1995:

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.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/106554

Apparently this guy is selling stuff online nowadays...lol

 

[xombine]

Then there are those pushing computers into schools. We're told that multimedia will make schoolwork easy and fun. Students will happily learn from animated characters while taught by expertly tailored software.Who needs teachers when you've got computer-aided education? Bah. These expensive toys are difficult to use in classrooms and require extensive teacher training.

lulz!

 

[Shakermaker]

Apparently this guy is selling stuff online nowadays...lol

He sells blown glass Klein bottles online. He also caught a bigtime hacker in the 80's. His wiki.

 

[jverne]

Robots will never turn against human beings!

*30 years later*

 

[Stigmata]

Is that what happens when BlogNet goes live?

 

[Polaris]

Ah, mad Clifford. That guy is pretty crazy brainiac.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8IA6xOpSk

 

[Acepilotf14]

God forbid we teach teachers to best use the technology available to them.

 

[Warped]

*30 years later*

i tried to go there but me no speaka no Dutch!

 

[Vegeta897]

Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don't know what to ignore and what's worth reading. 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 connectios, try again later."

I bet this guy loves Wikipedia now.

They're going to be screwed once this whole Internet fad is over

 

[Acepilotf14]

And to think I take all of this for granted.

 

[Baal]

He made some good points, but lacked the foresight to see that we could overcome those issues the Internet faced in the early days. A lot of people did though, and some of his points are still issues even today though.

As the older generations become irrelevant ("Oh god I can't give out my credit card number online!") in today's marketplace, that will help the Internet's ecommerce - not to say that isn't thriving already.

 

[jverne]

****, the pic doesn't work. God damn copyright law.