It only took 20 years to change the world

I know many of you saw the Super Bowl ad. But this gives you a little more than you saw in the ad.

My children a year before this interview understood the internet, played and communicated on the internet with a slow modem. News readers used to have a path to knowledge which involved writing and understanding news......Katie was the start of the demise of content based news, which was replaced by celebrity and self promotion of network entertainment. These ads are not funny. When watching Fox News and even Ed Shultz, I am shocked at how little knowledge these folks have......they are shills......selling ideology. The days of content driven news delivered by folks who actually understood much of the same died about the same time these tapes began having folks like Matt and Katie getting ratings.

The advent of the internet was much more difficult than the continuing innovation in energy technology.

I got on eBay in 97. Before that I used the internet only to read a vintage arcade game buy and sell "newsgroup" on Usenet.
And before that, a friend and I got on a bulletin board called "Sportsnet" to buy/sell baseball cards. That was in 1990.

Who remembers Usenet and "newsgroups"? For those who don't, that was the first example of "social media/internet message boards."

Bob wrote:I got on eBay in 97.  Before that I used the internet only to read a vintage arcade game buy and sell "newsgroup" on Usenet.
And before that,  a friend and I got on a bulletin board called "Sportsnet" to buy/sell baseball cards.  That was in 1990.

Who remembers Usenet and "newsgroups"?  For those who don't,  that was the first example of "social media/internet message boards."

The Internet is wonderful. Thank God Al Gore invented it.