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Wow, the phrase "information superhighway" really brought me back. I hadn't heard that for quite some time!
When I pause Netflix, why dont I have the option to purchase the clothes they are wearing on screen?
Imagine the admin required to setup and manage something like that... If implemented now, what about in 2032 when you're watching re-runs from 2022? What if the store goes bust or styles change?
Spam would be a huge problem, of course.
World 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.
Disappointed to not find a flower shop at branch.com:1080
Even the order form is still there, ready for your credit card. There's a link on the order form, "credit card concerns"...
> "...we feel that using a credit card here may be more secure than using it at your local restaurant. We don't know. We haven't had a problem in this area."
I guess "we don't know" covers them just in case things go wrong!
World 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.
We really don't, because technical accuracy isn't relevant to the vast majority of people, who aren't discussing protocols to begin with.
And anyway,I think people stopped referring to "the internet" in general once it became ubiquitous enough that it became more useful to refer to specific sites instead, or genres of services like social media. I think the only time people use "the internet" anymore is in reference to their ISP, eg: "the internet" going down.
Kind 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
When I pause Netflix, why dont I have the option to purchase the clothes they are wearing on screen?
Why don’t I even have the option to have friends on Netflix and make lists of movies I watch that I think they would like?
When I pause Netflix, why dont I have the option to purchase the clothes they are wearing on screen?
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)