XnMeX
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Why the internet will fail!
http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2010/02/27/newsweek-1995-bu...
An article in Newsweek written in 1995 about how the internet will fail and not change the way things are done. Make sure to read the red text at
least since that is the funniest stuff.
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BDx13
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"Baloney."
That was awesome.
Interesting that he responded, too.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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XnMeX
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BD
"Baloney."
That was awesome.
Interesting that he responded, too.
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Yup! His hindsight is deffinetly 20/20 now!
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Six66Mike
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"Then there’s cyberbusiness. We’re promised instant catalog shopping–just point and click for great deals. We’ll order airline tickets over the
network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an
afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet–which there isn’t–the
network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople."
Wow whoever wrote that is an idiot. What medium haven't salespeople taken advantage of? TV, Radio, roadside billboards, buses, telemarketing... of
course sales people will flock to the internet. People were buying shit online back in '95 too. PayPal started only 3 years after this article to
cash in on a growing market and they nailed it.
Good grief. I'm more afraid with what these sales people and government bitches are doing to the Internet today than what someone thought about in
the 90's though. Someone writing an article today for 2015 will probably be a longshot off the truth as well, they are going to fuck this thing up so
bad.
A lot of people ask me what kind of music I like. I love "soul music". My "soul music" isn’t a style, genre or niche. It’s music that is genuine. It’s
a painful lyric, a dirty bassline, it’s a harrowing vocal, it’s feedback, it’s an anthem, it’s a love song, it’s anarchy. I’ve got my personal
favourites but in the end it doesn’t matter who or where it comes from... so long as it’s good and it's real.
- Paul Morris, music director at 97.7 HTZ-FM
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