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What Is the Internet?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Deeper_Background, Jan 30, 2011.

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  1. Deeper_Background

    Deeper_Background Active Member

    Bryant Gumbel, Elizabeth Vargas, and Katie Couric don't know what the Internet is... Today Show January 1994
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    Deeper_Background, Jan 30, 2011
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  2. Journalist21

    Journalist21 Member

    Wouldn't be the only thing that Gumbel is unaware of.
     
    Journalist21, Jan 30, 2011
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  3. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Dooley_Womack1 is reporting that he is in college with Liz Vargas. More on this story as it develops.
     
    dooley_womack1, Jan 30, 2011
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  4. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Sadly, the faces were different, but that was the exact script of the executive roundtable at the 2008 ASNE convention.
     
    LongTimeListener, Jan 30, 2011
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  5. apeman33

    apeman33 Well-Known Member

    It's a series of tubes.
     
    apeman33, Jan 30, 2011
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  6. Roland of Gilead

    Roland of Gilead Member

    It's not a dump truck.
     
    Roland of Gilead, Jan 30, 2011
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  7. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    That's pretty funny to see now, but how out of touch were they?

    I think I first got online in around 1995 or so. My ex's brother gave us an old computer and a 14.4 kbps modem.
     
    YankeeFan, Jan 30, 2011
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  8. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I had AOL in high school. You only had so many minutes you could use a week.

    But when I got to college in the fall of '95, I remember it was late in the first semester when I told someone that I was ringing up a huge phone bill calling my girlfriend at home.

    Friend: "You guys should just email each other?"
    Me: "What is that?"

    Dramatization:

     
    Dick Whitman, Jan 30, 2011
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  9. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Deeper_Background is reporting news from 1994. Coming up next, the latest on the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby.
     
    The Big Ragu, Jan 30, 2011
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  10. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    I didn't and I was a computer geek. How many people knew what it was or what the Web was? Netscape wasn't founded until April 1994. Deeper_background continues to win the No. 1 idiot of SPJ.com award.
     
    Stitch, Jan 30, 2011
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  11. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    People in the 19th century didn't know we could travel to the moon and back.
    They were so stupid.
     
    Buck, Jan 31, 2011
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  12. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Katie's hair looked terrible.
     
    Ace, Jan 31, 2011
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