Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".
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I recall an interview with an AT&T exec who claimed the Internet was a fad
@stefan Does anyone have page, section, and edition for this? (The image gives author, title, date, and column).
@dedicto @stefan no but it looks like research being quoted is here: "they came, they surfed, they went back to the beach"
https://academic.oup.com/book/52617/chapter-abstract/421806907?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
and here is the entire ESRC "virtual society?" project book
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Virtual_Society.html?id=OEgVDAAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
@stefan the article was good, the timing was wrong, we're getting there now :P
Even then, vested interests were funding malign influence campaigns because they always fear the new.
Even then, the rich feared the disruption of unfettered access to information.
@stefan If only this had been true...
@stefan December 2000 seems to be a bit late for that. About three years late, since I would put the tipping point at about 1997.
@stefan Wow, that's about a year and a half *after* Homer Simpson said "The Internet? Is that thing still around?" in a joke indicating he was clueless and out-of-touch.
Don't look so frightened
This is just a passing phase
One of my bad days
@stefan "The Internet is just a hype" - supposedly Bill Gates
@stefan Interesting this quote: "e-mail [...] is adding to an overload of information".
So nothing has changed, really, we're just continually adjusting to overload.
@stefan I'm seeing the same article these days about electric cars and bikes. And the opposite articles about AI, "millions falling behind by not using AI"
@stefan Happy Dead Internet Day!!!
@stefan too bad it wasn’t right lol
@stefan I feel like this is an artifact from right as the timelines diverged. One from the good future.
