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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@stefan Wonder where James Chapman is now, curious what his thoughts are looking back
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us
He's a PR executive now, after bouncing around politics most of the 2010s.
@stefan that reminds me, I gotta renew my newspaper subscriptions. better write a check
@stefan A right-wing rag getting it massively wrong? This is my shocked face 😐
As it said, it was linked to the cost of it and its limitations.
I remember having to do my work in a shop or at the library and yes it was limited... and costly too.
I wonder what it will become in 30 years
@stefan I remember well my laughing at this time (after using the internet for years). But exactly 5 years before, I worked for a not so small German newspaper where our publisher said, the mechanical writing machines of the 1950s were quite good enough for another 10 yrs. When I took my electrical machine from home, my colleagues nearly killed me. At home, I produced zines on the computer. It was a time of disruption for late-comers.
In fairness: The thing that I thought about the Internet that year, that it would usher in a golden age of shared knowledge and respectful communication, is similarly laughable in retrospect. I wasn't alone in this belief either.
I'd've much rather lived in the universe where integrated circuits didn't work.
@stefan it would be better if millions currently on it had given up on it
@stefan We had a chance to kill it when it was an infant. But we didn’t.
It's not called the Daily Fail for nothin' 😂
@stefan Remember that time when the US built all those data centers for AI and then realized that LLMs didn’t work after all?
