i liked her light dig at the british govt for not having a modem or a policy on the internet. funny how different it is now with all the european regulation of the internet.
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#92World Wide Web (or WWW) is too long to say and "The Web" never really caught on, but the Internet is not quite accurate. It feels like we need a word to differentiate IP from HTTP. Though, since we haven't come up with one yet, I guess we will just have to live with the WWW being called the Internet.
For a while, I remember "The Net" being used. It sounds very wrong now.
Probably due to that provocative movie on cable TV by the same name.
It had that girl from the bus.
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#94Kind of makes me wonder what would those people say if we played them Bo Burnham's Welcome to The Internet from 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
I bet that lady would be pretty amped up about the streaming video quality. And all the Bill Clinton saxophone videos she could watch on there.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CRatTuWdT_Q
Also thanks for getting Bo stuck in my head for the rest of the day. That song has all the answers.
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#95All the websites shown probably implemented way better than most modern ones?
Definitely simpler. You could just "View source" and understand everything.
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Based on past experience, it is going to look a lot like the internet of today. Things just don't move that fast that 9 years will make much of a difference.
Like the internet today, but with more ads, more sponsored content, and more AI generated submarines.
Those submarines are going to be pretty sweet.
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#98For some reason this made me flashback to the summer of 1981 when MTV first went on the air https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs Spot the mainframe cabinet and wait for the full wall Moog (they actually showed non-stop videos back then, it was awesome, nothing like it before)
Music videos and live performances are about 99% of my YouTube consumption, so it's been a great MTV replacement for me.
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#99I like the not so subtle dig at John Major's total lack of policy regarding the internet in 1994.
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Ironically, I just ran into this phrase last week while reading an anthropology paper from the 90's ("Maya Hackers and the Cyberspatialized Nation-State: Modernity, Ethnostalgia, and a Lizard Queen in Guatemala") Whenever I hear this phrase it reminds me the part in the book Cryptonomicon where the pretentious humanities professor feels so clever for asking "How many slums will we bulldoze to build the Information Su…
Oh, ugh... Memories of all the awful road metaphor headlines of the time are flooding back-- "Breaking Down on the Information Superhighway", "Traffic Jams...",
Unfortunately that term brings an even more awful memory back for me and many others, as That enthusiasm was used for a brazen lie to the American public:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...