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 applznorngz rated 2 months ago - To consider: I value my SU connections... It is not meeting friends for coffee but connecting in a different way... still connecting though.. Some folks are like old acquaintances that I bump into at the grocery store... stop and talk, compare views, then push on... other SU sites are like art gal...
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- applznorngz rated 2 months ago
- To consider: I value my SU connections... It is not meeting friends for coffee but connecting in a different way... still connecting though.. Some folks are like old acquaintances that I bump into at the grocery store... stop and talk, compare views, then push on... other SU sites are like art galleries... oh my, and we have every kind ... Biography, Persian history, Philosophy and Poetic Ramblings, Political discussions, Liberal Rants, Funky Performance Art ... some rough, some smoothly polished ... Steampunk Villages (!) ... Multiple Personalities balanced with grace and charm ... Multiple Personalities raging and fuming ... But always perfect Art ... (Oh how I will miss Jude if she does make good her threats) ...
Am I a user because I friend these folks so I get interesting content? No, that's what SU is for ...
For the record, I get my interest fed from my Visitor pages and also my Friends and Fans page... both from the mutual friends and the folks who just drop by ...
I see it very much the same as when I go to the City and find my niche away from the Malls and big tourist areas. If it's a little dicey, dark, and grafitti'd, I'm sure to find some like-minded folks.
From Newsweek editorial, 2/27/1995:
Consider today's online world. The Usenet, a worldwide bulletin board, allows anyone to post messages across the nation. Your word gets out, leapfrogging editors and publishers. Every voice can be heard cheaply and instantly. The result? Every voice is heard. The cacophany more closely resembles citizens band radio, complete with handles, harrasment, and anonymous threats. When most everyone shouts, few listen. . . .
What's missing from this electronic wonderland? Human contact. Discount the fawning techno-burble about virtual communities. Computers and networks isolate us from one another. A network chat line is a limp substitute for meeting friends over coffee.
- AvangionQ rated 7 months ago
- From the page: "Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic. Baloney. Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? 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." ... when the internet was first forming, noone could have predicted its explosive growth -- now, the internet is ubiquitous amongst developed nations and still growing to become the repository of all collective human knowledge ...
- ElForko rated 7 months ago
- 1995 called. It said the internet will FAIL.
Lawl indeed.
- almeta rated 7 months ago
- Lawl.
- sallyjacobs rated 7 months ago
- I loved Clifford's book about tracking hackers back in the day (Cuckoo's Egg) but the dude was waaaaay off on his dismissal of Teh Internets back in 1995.
P.S. ElForko's review of this article is hylarious.
- chris-garrett rated 7 months ago
- That there intarnet will never take off ;) From the page: "Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? 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."
- SubIgnition rated 7 months ago
- From the page: "Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure."
An article from 1995. lol
- billso rated 7 months ago
- Cliff Stoll always was skeptical about the Internet. Read his book "Silicon Snake Oil" sometime...
- erithbabalon rated 7 months ago
- This made me laugh - and nod my head in agreement. The Net is here to stay - but it will not, and can not, replace the Real World. Books and newspapers will still get printed, we will still date face to face, and anonymous trolling can never be a replacement for learning basic social skills. Word.
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