"The Internet? Bah!"

Precious Roy · Mar 4, 2010

SoCalString said:

dixiehack said:

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

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~stoll/
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...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.
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He had to wear a yellow onion, cause all the white ones were spoken for, because of the war.

BTExpress · Mar 5, 2010

Well, he was correct about this:

Your word gets out, leapfrogging editors and publishers. Every voice can be heard cheaply and instantly. The result? Every voice is heard. The cacophany more closely resembles citizens band radio, complete with handles, harrasment, and anonymous threats.
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Everyone --- SportsJournalists.com nation included --- followed the post-election drama in Iran on Twitter. Only no one ever knew if someone's "eyewitness" account was coming from the streets of Tehran or a basement in Buffalo.

Point of Order · Mar 6, 2010

Googling Clifford Stoll:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll

In his 1995 book, Silicon Snake Oil,[4] and an accompanying article in Newsweek.[5] Stoll famously called the prospect of e-commerce "baloney", and raised questions about the influence of the Internet on future society and whether it would be beneficial. Along the way, he made various predictions, e.g. about e-commerce (calling it unviable due to a lack of personal contact and secure online funds transfers) and the future of printed news publications ("no online database will replace your daily newspaper").

Stoll sells blown glass Klein bottles on the Web.[6][7] As of 2009[update], he is a "mostly" stay-at-home dad.[6] He teaches eighth graders about physics at Tehiyah Day School, in El Cerrito, California.[8] Stoll was a regular contributor to MSNBC's The Site. Stoll is an FCC licensed amateur radio operator, callsign K7TA.[9]
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sgreenwell · Mar 7, 2010

Slate.com's tech guy actually just wrote about Stoll, and what makes a prediction a bad one:

http://www.slate.com/id/2246515/

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