Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video] • Hacker News Board

Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

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Post by euroderf » Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 6:18 AM UTC

OkayPhysicist wrote: post #159

euroderf wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They went like the first two or three years without commercials. Hard to believe now.

Or, viewed another way: they played nothing but commercials (for albums, concerts, and merch)

A wag once observed that the purpose of TV programming is to keep you in your chair for the ads. Product placement blurs this line. So commercial-free MTV was all "product" placement, all the time ?

Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

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Post by JohnJamesRambo » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 8:35 PM UTC

micromacrofoot wrote: post #198

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #196

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Why would that cost a ton of money?

why would building an entire social network cost a ton of money? it’s an entirely different product - dozens of features and content moderation just to get something simple out there…

Idk doesn’t seem that hard honestly. Websites with much less resources do it all the time.

I’m not asking for a Facebook clone I just want to be able to have friends and make lists for them and they make lists for me.

Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

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Post by 1916 » Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 6:21 PM UTC

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Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

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Post by Handytinge » Sat, Oct 01, 2022, 10:52 AM UTC

nuker wrote: post #46

I built a retro 486 PC, bought a modem and could not find any dial-up ISPs in Australia. The 19xx prefix is not dial-able using VoIP line that I set up (we don't have POTS lines anymore).

As someone who did support for dial up in Australia many years ago, I've been thinking of doing this.

It would be trivial to set up a VoIP service restricted to outbound POPs.