MTV News covers "The Internet", video from 1995

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Post by fourspace » Sat, Jul 30, 2011, 1:00 AM UTC

MTV News covers "The Internet", video from 1995
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Post by nvictor » Sat, Jul 30, 2011, 1:59 AM UTC

i wonder if we've made progress at all...

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Post by null_para » Sat, Jul 30, 2011, 3:13 AM UTC

I love all the websites! Flashy and totally original. Anyways, its interesting to see lot of people were referring to Internet as "cyber space", which was prevalent during those days. Surprisingly, nobody refers to Internet as cyberspace now a days.

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Post by georgieporgie » Sat, Jul 30, 2011, 4:01 AM UTC

I find the cyberpunk and mind-altering culture of the very early 90s Internet (referred to briefly in the video) to be fascinating. I wish I'd been a few years older so I could have properly witnessed it.

Random things I remember from the time:

* Billy Idol's strange Cyberpunk album http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_(album)

* Mondo 2000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondo_2000

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Post by vonSeckendorff » Sat, Jul 30, 2011, 4:27 AM UTC

I was shocked by two egregious prosecutions mentioned in the video:

Jake Baker Arrested for posting rape/murder fantasy on the internet case dismissed

Robert Thomas Tried for transmitting porn on the internet sentenced to three years in prison

We must remain guarded against such assaults, even to this day. I don't think there has been much of a shift in politicians' technoliteracy or indeed their ulterior motives.

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Post by antiterra » Sat, Jul 30, 2011, 4:27 AM UTC

null_para wrote: post #3

I love all the websites! Flashy and totally original. Anyways, its interesting to see lot of people were referring to Internet as "cyber space", which was prevalent during those days. Surprisingly, nobody refers to Internet as cyberspace now a days.

Except they do. At the moment, search results on Twitter are largely polluted with the article in question, but you can still see plenty of everyday folk using the term. News outlets still use it all the time, and it's something a regular news.yc reader should see quite often: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aycombinator.com+cybers...

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Post by jfruh » Sat, Jul 30, 2011, 4:32 AM UTC

HEY EVERYONE 1995 NEWT GINGRICH SAYS INTERNET PORN IS CONSTITUTIONAL

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Post by fourspace » Sat, Jul 30, 2011, 4:34 AM UTC

vonSeckendorff wrote: post #5

I was shocked by two egregious prosecutions mentioned in the video: Jake Baker Arrested for posting rape/murder fantasy on the internet case dismissed Robert Thomas Tried for transmitting porn on the internet sentenced to three years in prison We must remain guarded against such assaults, even to this day. I don't think there has been much of a shift in politicians' technoliteracy or indeed their ulterior motives.

That kind of blew my mind too. Three years in prison for "transmitting porn", prosecuted in a state in which he didn't even reside? WTF.

Here's some more detail from the US Appellate Court: https://www2.bc.edu/~herbeck/cyberlaw.thomas.html

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Post by WXMA » Sat, Jul 30, 2011, 4:35 AM UTC

I think the most interesting thing about this video is that MTV didn't use to be crap.

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Post by NickKampe » Sat, Jul 30, 2011, 4:38 AM UTC

Thanks, but this is 16 years old.