"The Internet? Bah!"

Newsweek column from 1995.

Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.

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

 

That's better than any parody some guy could write.

 

Well, the guy was right in a way. If they were actually buying newspapers over the Internet they'd still be in great shape.

I like that Bah is in the headline, and he also used it in the column.

 

"Sure, kids love videogames—but think of your own experience: can you recall even one educational filmstrip of decades past?"

Schoolhouse Rock.

"STOLL is the author of "Silicon Snake Oil--Second Thoughts on the Information Highway," to be published by Doubleday in April."

Wonder how many book sales he had over the Internet?

 

<quote> What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is tht the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data </quote>

I lol'd

 

The Internet? That thing's still around?

 

Yeah. It's called the World Wide Web.

 

Well that certainly was a prescient story.

 

Battle of Trafalgar googles up quite nicely today, Clifford.

 

Guess he's been too busy wearing an onion on his belt to doll up his homepage.

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~stoll/

 

...which was the style at the time. You could take the ferry to Shelbyville for a nickel. Course in those days a nickel had a picture of a BUMBLE BEE on it. 'Gimme five bees fer a quarter' that's what we'd say.