Maybe it's nostalgia, but there's something calming about CRTs...
As I remember it they were a pain to look at for long periods.
Maybe there was some upside to that though, encouraging people not to stay on the computer for too long...
Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
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#52well, 28 years after airing of this report, most UK & EU internet services are now provided by a few American companies. for other smaller countries in Asia and Africa, things are probably worse, they are pretty much denied for their digital sovereignty with all essential online services, privacy data and sometimes the infrastructure itself completely controlled by those few companies.
Which companies? Unless you mean websites and not the ISPs themselves, in which case, fair.
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#53Wow, the phrase "information superhighway" really brought me back. I hadn't heard that for quite some time!
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 Superhighway?"
Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
#54Port explicitly specified in at least one URL. Was HTTP without a standard port back in '94?
She mentions that this was all downloaded previously. They prob have a local server/DNS.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Check it out: https://www.bmvi.de/EN/Home/home.html "Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport"
It got its current name 2013. It was a merger 1998 of "Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building" and the one responsible for transport. The urban development department was responsible for internet infrastructure not the transport one.
Shouldn't it be the ministry for infrastructure?
Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
#56Related?
Ed Krol's The Whole Internet
Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
#57It'll never catch on.
Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
#58Wow, the phrase "information superhighway" really brought me back. I hadn't heard that for quite some time!
And, as evident in the video, its considerable overuse. I cringed watching this every time she said it beyond the first few times.
Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
#59Related are the AT&T "You will" commercials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2EgfkhC1eoRe: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
#60When I pause Netflix, why dont I have the option to purchase the clothes they are wearing on screen?
The much more wild thing is that Amazon Prime Video doesn't do this. The overall interface and concept is not far from the "X-Ray" view that Amazon already has... and, of course, they have a built in retailer you could order from.