The Internet - 1995

[Coemgen]

LOL, that's great. I like the line that says

"And you can't tote that laptop to the beach"

I think when people make opinions that include the words "never" or "always" it's very dangerous.

I hear people all the time say "There "may" be life on other planets, BUT we'll never know because it's impossible to travel faster than the speed of light" Ok, that might be true right now, but it might not be true in 100 years or 1000.

Technically, it's just impossible to travel at the speed of light. You could travel faster if you could find a way to not go as fast as the speed of light but still go faster than it.

Theoretically, anyway.

[floridaredhead]

:reads original post:

BWAAAAAAAAhahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!

[sharpdressedscot]

If only they knew...

[Ian.MacAllan]

What caught my eye in the Newsweek article was the number of typos in it. Much of the commercial speech on the web today is significantly better written and better edited than that article.

It is certainly true that there is a mountain of misinformation on the web today, but it is equally true that there was much misinformation in the printed media of the pre-computer era also. Critical reading has always been necessary.

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[Coinneach]

Somewhere in my files of ancient history, I have an email from a friend of mine who was excited by having found a site on the Internet that sold books...at a discount. "It's called Amazon." I think that was in 1996.

[Coemgen]

Somewhere in my files of ancient history, I have an email from a friend of mine who was excited by having found a site on the Internet that sold books...at a discount. "It's called Amazon." I think that was in 1996.

I still remember the first Amazon commercial I saw a-way back when.

It was Christmas time and a bunch of guys were standing around singing 'I spent two minutes, two minutes, two minutes shopping for your giiiiiiiift…" That's all I recall, but it was pretty funny.