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As an e-commerce professional, this is my favorite part:
Then there's cyberbusiness. We're promised instant catalog shopping—just point and click for great deals. We'll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet—which there isn't—the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople.
Then there's cyberbusiness. We're promised instant catalog shopping—just point and click for great deals. We'll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet—which there isn't—the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople.
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No one uses dem internets! Just like dem darn cellular walkie talkie thingies! Who wants a tellular phonie thingy with'em all the darn time!
Devil magic I say!
Devil magic I say!
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I thought this was going to be about Dvoraks Special person babble from the early 90s.
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When my dad worked at Ameritech corporate the CEO's famous line to him in an elevator one day was "The internet? Ha! That'll be gone by Friday."
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Lmao.... my Dad worked as a technician for Illinois Bell then Ameritech and finally for AT&T.... that sounds exactly like what I would expect from those fucktards lol.
Over the years the shit I heard from my Dad confounded me, until I started working and met real Corporate Directors, VPs, even a CEO... then I realized it all made sense.
The best was when they cut the shit out of my Dad's overtime cause they hired more fucktards they could pay to take on the extra work.... inside a year they were paying the newbies to work regular hours and paying my Dad overtime to go in and fix the shit they fucked up the first time around.
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Yeah my dad got hired at AT&T in 1980 Downtown, when AT&T broke up, became Illinois Bell, then they formed Ameritech in which he ended up in the corporate office then. Went through merger with SBC then back to where he started with AT&T again. But yeah, very 1980's management that didn't get it. Someone somewhere convinced Ameritech that the internet was a worthy project though because my dad was a big part of the team that helped develop it for users.
But yeah I heard all the corporate shit over the years and well it never really hit me until I also reached that part. My girlfriend works for Sears Corporate and well her stories more so sound like ones my dads has that I've ever experience myself.
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I love this in the comments section: "He forgot to mention that your lame predictions will never come back through the internet to bite you in the rear."
I gotta admit, when everyone was talking about all the possibilities of the internet, I used to laugh and say "that ain't gonna happen!" Now I do almost everything online. Youtube in particular is amazing. For example, last night my washer stopped working and was flashing "F21" on the screen. I just hop onto youtube, search for "Whirlpool F21," and sure enough someone has a video posted that details exactly what you need to do to fix it. I'm so appreciative of people who take the time to make videos like that. And if something's not on youtube, I go to message boards like this and always get answers to my questions.
I gotta admit, when everyone was talking about all the possibilities of the internet, I used to laugh and say "that ain't gonna happen!" Now I do almost everything online. Youtube in particular is amazing. For example, last night my washer stopped working and was flashing "F21" on the screen. I just hop onto youtube, search for "Whirlpool F21," and sure enough someone has a video posted that details exactly what you need to do to fix it. I'm so appreciative of people who take the time to make videos like that. And if something's not on youtube, I go to message boards like this and always get answers to my questions.
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My Dad actually had opportunity to move into management and work his way up the ladder but preferred to actually work.... he wasn't cut out for that corporate management bullshit, he wouldn't have lasted. And I think therein lies the weakness of alot of the companies in the world today.... The management makes the most money, does the least work, and climbs the ladder by politics and bullshitting. And the fucktard who climbs the highest says some stupid shit that makes no sense in meetings with their peon fucktard lesser-thans and no one says "Hey lets not do that cause its fucking stupid/immoral/wrong/infeasible/inefficient/wasteful" cause if they do they will slide down the ladder.
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LFAO
What a moron. Lookit these:
The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper
The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper
Bah. These expensive toys are difficult to use in classrooms and require extensive teacher training.
What a moron. Lookit these:
The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper
The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper
Bah. These expensive toys are difficult to use in classrooms and require extensive teacher training.
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lookit this...
Won't the Internet be useful in governing? Internet addicts clamor for government reports. But when Andy Spano ran for county executive in Westchester County, N.Y., he put every press release and position paper onto a bulletin board. In that affluent county, with plenty of computer companies, how many voters logged in? Fewer than 30. Not a good omen.
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Won't the Internet be useful in governing? Internet addicts clamor for government reports. But when Andy Spano ran for county executive in Westchester County, N.Y., he put every press release and position paper onto a bulletin board. In that affluent county, with plenty of computer companies, how many voters logged in? Fewer than 30. Not a good omen.
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I feel like this is an April Fool's joke, or should be something the Onion wrote.
Nearly every major shift in communication technology has been world changing. How anyone could have thought the internet wouldn't change the world is dumb founding.
I was 13 in 1995 and I could have told this dude he's being incredibly short sighted.
Nearly every major shift in communication technology has been world changing. How anyone could have thought the internet wouldn't change the world is dumb founding.
I was 13 in 1995 and I could have told this dude he's being incredibly short sighted.
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Ok, in the guy's defense, who really predicted the level of dependency that we now have with today's technology.
Cell phone in 1996.
Two things changed everything. The advent of affordable high speed internet in the private home and the evolution of cellular phones into the mini computers that almost all of us have today. Both things were almost unthinkable in 1995. You have to remember that the vast majority of people in 1995 used Windows 3.1 (Win 95 came out that year) which used a DOS shell. Most computers connected to the internet via a phone line and few could get faster than a 28.8k connection. I remember thinking that was fast back in the day. Only colleges, the government or those that were rich could affort T1 or cable modems, if there was the ability to connect. Most places didn't have that capability in 1995. That really changed around the turn of the 21st century. Now most people can get a high speed connection at 50-100 times the speed of the connections of 1995. But back in 1995 this was only theoretical and many thought that the cost would still keep it out of reach for the average person.
Cell phone technology is the other big thing. Back in 1995 everything was still analog and there really was nothing close to what we have now. Phones had the capability to text and phone and really little else. Heck, pagers were still big back then. The whole phone revolution with apps and web access really didn't start happening until around 2002, when 3G service made surfing on a phone possible. In the author's defense, there was little indication of what really was the major revolution up to this point in the 21st century. People now can sit in a coffee shot, fire up their I-Pad and wirelessly connect and surf the web at speeds that were unthinkable in 1995.
If we hadn't been able to access information at the rate we do now then none of the things we take for granted now, like online shopping, bill paying or even surfing would be possible. We wouldn't be able to connect to places like Amazon or E-bay like we do now. Facebook would still be restricted to Universities and Twitter would probably never happen. Plus we would never get to see Scoot26's rigeous GIF of Jefferey's catch against the Cowboys.
Cell phone in 1996.
Two things changed everything. The advent of affordable high speed internet in the private home and the evolution of cellular phones into the mini computers that almost all of us have today. Both things were almost unthinkable in 1995. You have to remember that the vast majority of people in 1995 used Windows 3.1 (Win 95 came out that year) which used a DOS shell. Most computers connected to the internet via a phone line and few could get faster than a 28.8k connection. I remember thinking that was fast back in the day. Only colleges, the government or those that were rich could affort T1 or cable modems, if there was the ability to connect. Most places didn't have that capability in 1995. That really changed around the turn of the 21st century. Now most people can get a high speed connection at 50-100 times the speed of the connections of 1995. But back in 1995 this was only theoretical and many thought that the cost would still keep it out of reach for the average person.
Cell phone technology is the other big thing. Back in 1995 everything was still analog and there really was nothing close to what we have now. Phones had the capability to text and phone and really little else. Heck, pagers were still big back then. The whole phone revolution with apps and web access really didn't start happening until around 2002, when 3G service made surfing on a phone possible. In the author's defense, there was little indication of what really was the major revolution up to this point in the 21st century. People now can sit in a coffee shot, fire up their I-Pad and wirelessly connect and surf the web at speeds that were unthinkable in 1995.
If we hadn't been able to access information at the rate we do now then none of the things we take for granted now, like online shopping, bill paying or even surfing would be possible. We wouldn't be able to connect to places like Amazon or E-bay like we do now. Facebook would still be restricted to Universities and Twitter would probably never happen. Plus we would never get to see Scoot26's rigeous GIF of Jefferey's catch against the Cowboys.
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This was the one time I was on the right side of things. When I first saw the Mosaic browser at U of I back in 1991 I spouted how it would be our everything. Sad, just sad our dependence on it.
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That's funny because even today I try to deal with salespeople as little as possible. I still do 99% of my shopping in physical stores and I always dread the "can I help you with anything?" question.
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A friend of my has little girls that are about 5 or so. They saw a commercial on TV for the first time and had no idea what it was or why they couldn't fast forward through it.
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I know right! My girls are in the car and they ask me to replay live radio.
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I've actually caught myself wishing that was possible. Typically when somebody is talking and I miss what they say.
I’m surprised nobody has come up with a way to do it yet. Like a DVR for your radio. Million dollar idea.
Edit: After googling it, it does exist in some forms. GM did it in 2010.
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My old Sirius satellite radio receiver used to be able to do it. But then they got involved in some litigation with the music industry and aren't allowed to do it anymore.
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When you're using an 8bit computer, and you're hooked on the net with a modem that connected to a phone and not directly to a phone jack, you knew things were only going to get better.