Why The Internet Will Fail

[NeRo9k]

"Just came across this article from Newsweek in 1995. It lists all the reasons the internet will fail. My two favorite parts:

The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

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Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.

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[Vacker1229]

here is more...

pretty funny stuff, I googled Cliff Stoll and he is quite something, not sure what...

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/techtonicshifts/archive/2010/03/02/let-s-talk-about-the-1995-newsweek-piece-that-says-the-internet-will-fail.aspx

but I do agree, most people laughed when we referred to the "internet highway" taking over. In 78 my friend was a computer operator working for DECASR which was a government defense administration office here in the SF bay area. I was amazed with the room filled with a giant computer and the disk drives were like a large cake container and weighed about 20 pounds.

[TeriJo]

VERY funny. But then, we had more competent teachers back then. LOL Okay okay, I'm kidding

I was never a big newspaper reader tho, I actually read more on the internet than I ever did the paper version. Although it did line the birdcages much better!

[Luke]

hahaha i love it, that is great! reading old opinions like that! and it turned out the were 100% WRONG! rofl.