Probably correct. But, it doesn't feel that way.
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
If there actually existed domain names with underscores, probably many casual internet users wouldn't know how to type them.
I think phreeza's point was that underscores aren't allowed in host names. (Officially, at least. I feel like I've seen them work and then sometimes seen them not work.)
Yep they flat out break stuff in IE at least. Cookie saving, for instance, simply won't work if the domain contains an underscore.
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#33How we access the internet has changed (mobile, smartphones, pervasive broadband), and businesses effectively provide great services connected to the Internet (Amazon in particular), but for me, the only real changes other than those from ~1992 to today are mixed: 1) Lots more people on the Internet 2) Lower barrier to access Sure, it's prettier, but USENET, IRC, etc. basically covered what we do with the Internet to…
Couldn't disagree with you more. To name just a dozen new internet things from the last 10 years that I did not have in 1990s. o Google o Wikipedia o Netflix o iTunes o Spotify/Pandora o Stack Exchange/Overflow o RSS (Google Reader/Feedly/etc..) o GitHub o Facebook o Instagram o Whatsapp o Gmail o Google Earth/Maps. I can only imagine what the next dozen new categories will be invented in the next 15 years.
Handling video and audio was an improvement brought mostly by computing technology vs. the Internet expanding; I'm fine with a LAN-local archive of music and video (admittedly, using flac/mp3 and bd remux and h264), and a lot of my content was ripped from physical media vs. downloaded. So the streaming services aren't terribly compelling to me.
(Pictures, too -- until the late 1990s, graphics were a pain)
USENET > RSS.
CVS for projects like FreeBSD wasn't particularly worse than GitHub.
gmail is actually inferior to mutt + own mail server in a lot of ways; it's easier to set up.
Google Earth/Maps are awesome, as is google search. Wikipedia is the kind of thing which easily could have existed in the 1990s-style Internet; FAQs were largely the same thing, just structured differently. I'd count it, but I do think a 1990-era Internet would have eventually created some kind of repository of indexed knowledge like Wikipedia.
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#34>You could pick almost any category X and add some AI to it, put it on the cloud. Few devices had more than one or two sensors in them, unlike the hundreds now. Expectations and barriers were low. It was easy to be the first. And then they would sigh, “Oh, if only we realized how possible everything was back then!” It's a bit easy to imagine once something's already survived it. A device with a hundred sensors probab…
The amount of low-hanging fruit available is at least partially dependent on how tall you are.
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#35>You could pick almost any category X and add some AI to it, put it on the cloud. Few devices had more than one or two sensors in them, unlike the hundreds now. Expectations and barriers were low. It was easy to be the first. And then they would sigh, “Oh, if only we realized how possible everything was back then!” It's a bit easy to imagine once something's already survived it. A device with a hundred sensors probab…
There most definitely is low hanging fruit. If you had the benefit of perfect hindsight from 20 or 30 years in the future, almost certainly there are things you could create today and be wildly successful with.
However, none of us have the benefit of perfect hindsight from the future. We have to actually figure out what to do for ourselves, the hard way. And once your development skills get to a certain point, figuring out what to do is much harder than figuring out how to do it, generally.
And so that makes that low hanging fruit not all that easy to get to after all, which is your point I guess! But still, the article gives a useful angle to think of these things from, I think.
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#36>You could pick almost any category X and add some AI to it, put it on the cloud. Few devices had more than one or two sensors in them, unlike the hundreds now. Expectations and barriers were low. It was easy to be the first. And then they would sigh, “Oh, if only we realized how possible everything was back then!” It's a bit easy to imagine once something's already survived it. A device with a hundred sensors probab…
The amount of low-hanging fruit available is at least partially dependent on how tall you are.
...and the number of patents/patent trolls waiting in the wings.
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#37> Because here is the other thing the greybeards in 2044 will tell you: Can you imagine how awesome it would have been to be an entrepreneur in 2014? It was a wide-open frontier!
Maybe the rest of the article is making it sound simpler than it is. But I couldn't agree with the above lines more.
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#38>You could pick almost any category X and add some AI to it, put it on the cloud. Few devices had more than one or two sensors in them, unlike the hundreds now. Expectations and barriers were low. It was easy to be the first. And then they would sigh, “Oh, if only we realized how possible everything was back then!” It's a bit easy to imagine once something's already survived it. A device with a hundred sensors probab…
I think his point is that, as the technological sphere expands, there is continually more opportunity than there ever has been before. In that light, your best point seems to be that most of us looking to capitalize on that opportunity will fail, as have most innovators before.
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#39Had to find out what eventually happened with Quittner/McDonalds.com:
"Quittner did indeed offer the name back to McDonald's in one of his magazine columns, but not in exchange for money. In a manner reminiscent of the Princeton Review, he instead offered to surrender the domain name if McDonald's corporation would underwrite some Internet equipment for a grade school. This and other provoking articles caught the corporation's attention; they responded not by funding grade school computer access, but by pressuring the InterNIC to revoke Quittner's registration of the name. Although the registry had stayed out of previous disputes such as the Adam Curry litigation, sticking tenaciously to its "first-come, first-served" policy, it wavered before this new corporate threat. InterNIC first resisted McDonalds' demands, then eventually agreed to revoke the registration, then changed its mind again, leaving the registration with Quittner. McDonald's ultimately agreed to donate $3,500 to purchase the equipment."
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#40Had to find out what eventually happened with Quittner/McDonalds.com: "Quittner did indeed offer the name back to McDonald's in one of his magazine columns, but not in exchange for money. In a manner reminiscent of the Princeton Review, he instead offered to surrender the domain name if McDonald's corporation would underwrite some Internet equipment for a grade school. This and other provoking articles caught the cor…
Would that nasty move be acceptable today for McDonalds? The Internet has changed some things.