Funny outdated 1995 Newsweek article about how the Internet is just a passing fad...

[mattitude]

Here it be (http://www.newsweek.com/id/106554).

Click to read about how the Internet will never affect education and government, how nobody will ever get their news online over a good ol' fashioned newspaper, and how the concept of selling a product online is an absolute impossibility.

This whole information superhighway thing is going to blow over any day now, I can feel it.

[Baanu_Rass]

I love the past. Everyone in it is so stupid.

[Elegy]

Hindsight is always 20/20, but looking back, it's still a bit fuzzy.

[CCDaDon]

Rock and Roll will be forgotten by this fall.

[animemetalhead]

And I bet looking back, Newsweek totally facepalmed and went back to updating their Facebook status and sending Tweets.

I wish the whole social networking thing was a fad...

[Wiiman95]

It's past 2005. I'm still waiting on my Hovercar.

[Sarge51]

Remember when Pokemon was supposed to be a fad? I love when people call something a fad and it keeps on keeping on for years to come.

[gosox333]

What's an internet?

[ArmsAreLoud]

On New Year's Day, 1900, the president of the patent office decided he wanted to close his office because he believed everything worth inventing was already invented. Fortunately, the US Government declined his demand.

In other words, old people are morons. I'm so glad that I'm a part of this more intelligent generation. :P

[kiggidykev]

In other words, old people are morons. I'm so glad that I'm a part of this more intelligent generation. :P

Well that part is debatable :D

[miche.cs]

Let's face it, every generation thinks the one before it was idiots and they know everything about everything and they rule. History has proven this is not the case usually.

[ArmsAreLoud]

Well that part is debatable :D

The :P implies sarcasm.

[Der_Lex]

What appalls me more than the viewpoints presented in the article is the severe lack of editing. It's riddled with typos and misspellings. I'd have expected better from a publication like Newsweek.

[maitee1]

At first, I thought it was a joke because everytime I clicked the link, I received page could not be displayed.

Just now though it came up and I read it and had a chuckle. A lot has happened in 15 years technologically speaking.

And he did like the word "Bah" a lot

[bood-boy]

i bet in 1995 they thought the music of the 2000's was going to be great too. boy were they WRONG.

at least in the 90's they made original movies and good music. the same cannot be said about today.

[miche.cs]

Me n Jen were talking about that the other day. How the 2000's were largely rubbish for movies and music on a greater scale of things.

[bood-boy]

im glad i grew up in the 90's for the most part so im not subjected to all this **** being the stuff i associate my youth with... a few years earlier would have been nicer so i could have totally appreciated the rest of the 80's. then again, im glad im not in my 30's yet hehehe

[miche.cs]

im glad i grew up in the 90's for the most part so im not subjected to all this **** being the stuff i associate my youth with... a few years earlier would have been nicer so i could have totally appreciated the rest of the 80's. then again, im glad im not in my 30's yet hehehe

That's exactly the conclusion we came to. Although it never ceases to amaze me how Jen's just a bit younger than me (a year and some change) and I remember stuff she doesn't have any recollection of.

[bood-boy]

like Bravestarr?
eyes of the hawk, ears of the wolf. strength of the bear. speed of the puma.

[miche.cs]

like Bravestarr?
eyes of the hawk, ears of the wolf. strength of the bear. speed of the puma.

Actually my favourite cartoon, closely followed by Biker Mice from Mars. Neither of which she really remembered until I showed her them. We'll just chalk it up to the epilepsy and move on.

[bood-boy]

the Cowboys of Moo Mesa?

what about the Comic Strip? i still remember the song and no one i know even remembers the show.
SEE OH EM EYE SEE! ESS TEE ARE EYE PEE! Cmon take a trip down the Comic Strip!
with the Street Frogs and Karate Kat?

[miche.cs]

Lol, I loved the Cowboys of Moo Mesa. I have a thing about westerns and cowboys in general:)

I dunno if we got the Comic Strip over here. Street Frogs and Karate Kat I'm getting a vague recollection of.

[bermuddy]

bravestarr was lame. it's all about king arthur and the knights of justice. greatest theme song ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNjhbOH8m2U

[Apples]

STOLL is the author of "Silicon Snake Oil--Second Thoughts on the Information Highway," to be published by Doubleday in April.

Last line says it all. The article was written to sell a book. :rolleyes:

[mattitude]

i bet in 1995 they thought the music of the 2000's was going to be great too. boy were they WRONG.

at least in the 90's they made original movies and good music. the same cannot be said about today.

Amen to that. Without the 90's, we'd be denied modern classics like this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeLI0ZT2yo8).

[Wolfbeckett]

Hilarious read. I always love reading the misinformed ramblings of crotchety old men. Attached is what I am picturing as I read his article.

[miche.cs]

Amen to that. Without the 90's, we'd be denied modern classics like this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeLI0ZT2yo8).

Dude. That is a total classic.

[bermuddy]

joey lawrence was a stud muffin and i totally loved him on blossom.

whoa.

[miche.cs]

I totally had a crush on him.

[bermuddy]

how'd that turn out for you?

[miche.cs]

Conflict of interests. I also though Six was attractive. This was my brain until I was about 12 and figured out what the hell was going on, lol.

[bermuddy]

jenna von oy was a total hottie.

[Baanu_Rass]

In other words, old people are morons. I'm so glad that I'm a part of this more intelligent generation. :P

Shoulders of giants and all that. We exist in the past too.

[Ehfahq]

I was just checking out his wiki page and it mentions this. Funny thing, he was a regular contributor to MSNBC's The Site. Which was a TV program devoted to the Internet revolution.

Har.

[Ferocious Q]

Remember when Pokemon was supposed to be a fad? I love when people call something a fad and it keeps on keeping on for years to come.

Yeah!

[Jglaubman]

Remember when Tickle Me Elmo was supposed to be a fad? I still use mine everyday!

[HeyRiles]

I have to write a source paper with a primary source about the internet later this semester and I'm totally going to use this

[kiggidykev]

bravestarr was lame. it's all about king arthur and the knights of justice. greatest theme song ever.

You take it back! YOU TAKE IT BACK!

[CJHobbes]

Not that I want to derail this thread back to the OP, but...

While the article is amusing in how completely wrong it is, back in '95 his comments were completely valid. You could say the Google and Wikipedia we all know and love now is a direct result from how poor and inaccurate search engines were back then. I remember doing a few papers at school, trying to use the internet for research, and heading to the library as a result because you couldn't easily find solid, cited information.

So yes, it's humorous to think that someone published an opinion that the internet wouldn't become anything special, but I imagine back then his opinion wasn't unique. He quite underestimated the fact that while you often find pieces of glass, rock and trash in the sandbox, you also find some great creations (http://artstyleonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/israel-sand-sculpture.jpg).

I find more comedy in the comments of the article, especially those who didn't realize this article is 15 years old. :D

[bermuddy]

You take it back! YOU TAKE IT BACK!

i'm sorry. that may have sounded harsher than initially intended.