I'm amazed how close we came to the CLIPPER chip. That would have undermined literally everything digital. Thanks to everyone who helped kill that.
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Re: The best and worst of 1994 and predictions for '95
#32Apparently “worst of internet” was… “The organization of the World-Wide Web. I love the Web, but finding something specific on it is a nightmare. And because the Web is growing by leaps and bounds, I just don't see things getting easier anytime soon.”
Made me smile... especially the last line. :)
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you elaborate? This sounds like an interesting bit of early internet drama/history.
Scientology holds their non-newbie teachings as, essentially, trade secrets. You only get to see them after you pay a lot of money to "advance" in their ranks. Somebody - presumably a disgruntled insider - started publishing some of their texts on alt.scientology. Scientology tried to stop them by automated (or very rapid human) cancels, with forged "from" fields. Posts on the board got "visited by the cancel bunny".…
If you think that's wild, wait til you hear what they did in meatspace!
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#34I miss /~username/ urls. Also that HTML! v6n1 January 1995 Best and Worst The Best and Worst of 1994 and Predictions for '95 by Eric Berlin ... No 's to be found :-)
it's funny that web browsers parse Ps in there
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#35This excerpt is sure to provoke some opinions: > Worst: Government intervention. They ruined the railroads and the phone companies, and now they're after the Internet. It works like this: Something is good, and private companies are selling it and making it work. The government decides it's a "right," and subsidizes one of those private companies to give it to people who can't afford it. The subsidized company soon r…
I feel like the prediction came true but without any government intervention required.
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#36> I remember the first time I saw a URL address: http://www.something.something.something. "Ugh," I moaned. "A whole new language I have to learn? I was just getting the hang of Unix!" I immediately resigned myself to the fact that this might be the end of my days in cyberspace. The Net had become somewhat of a runaway locomotive and I was the woman running behind it, screaming for the conductor to please wait! Then suddenly it all came together. A Net guru friend told me about Lynx. "All you have to do," he said, "is type the word 'lynx' at your Unix prompt, and presto! You're into the Web." That weekend I spent about eight hours a day exploring. I quickly found out that you could access all your favorite telnet, FTP, and Gopher sites from the Web, as well as tons of resources you would never find anywhere else on the Net. My cyberlife had changed forever.
Fantastic.
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#37I miss /~username/ urls. Also that HTML! v6n1 January 1995 Best and Worst The Best and Worst of 1994 and Predictions for '95 by Eric Berlin ... No 's to be found :-)
That's in spec for the time. HTML 2.0 draft 00, November 1994:
"2.14.1 Paragraph
Level 0
The Paragraph element indicates a paragraph. The exact
indentation, leading, etc. of a paragraph is not defined
and may be a function of other tags, style sheets, etc.
Typically, paragraphs are surrounded by a vertical space
of one line or half a line. This is typically not the
case within the Address element and or is never the case
within the Preformatted Text element. With some HTML
user agents, the first line in a paragraph is indented.
Example of use:
This Heading Precedes the Paragraph
This is the text of the first paragraph.
This is the text of the second paragraph. Although you
do not need to start paragraphs on new lines, maintaining
this convention facilitates document maintenance.
This is the text of a third paragraph.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-html-spec-0...
This is still "true". You can't embed a
in another
. It's special that way.
I've never tried it using JS with just an addChild though, I wonder what would happen...
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#38So little has changed.
People were predicting that sometime very soon(TM) everyone will be cancelled "just because someone doesn't like their ideas", people still having huge arguments on global warming, "any tragic event" has people who "taunted its seriousness", and Nethack is still awesome.
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#39“Best Usenet thread: Follow-ups to "Global Warning" in dozens of Usenet groups” Would be interesting to see the discussions from 30 years ago.
I had a moment like that seeing this very real newspaper snippet from 1912: https://www.facebook.com/HistoricPhotographs/photos/a.220359...
"This effect may be considerable in a few centuries", indeed
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#40> There's not much that's bad on the Net Given the EFF email address, I think that's probably a quote from the same Mike Godwin of "Godwin's Law" fame. In other words, somebody who would have known what he was talking about. It'd be unimaginable for any informed person to say that about today's internet. I'm not sure how much of that was that life was just better in the 90s when there were few real problems in the wo…
>> I'm not sure how much of that was that life was just better in the 90s when there were few real problems in the world
What? Life was certainly worse in the 1990s compared to today on almost all axes except for how much people complain about it online.