Why the Internet Will Fail (LOLZ)

[Grendizer]

"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?"

Article (Newsweek, 1995)

Poor Interwebs, all made of FAIL and POO. Because nothing can change, and if it hasn't happened it won't. That's why some people would rather have Interwebs than sex.

... Well, it was the suck in '95. But how can you come to doubt a machine made of a series of tubes? I mean, it's freakin' tubes. I just don't get it.

[tinyspider]

[dale coba]

Interwebs = hardware or content?

I went with FAILED POO, but I know it travels through a series of FAIL TUBES before it gets to me.

- Dale Coba

[Grendizer]

The author's primary bitch was about content:

"Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don’t know what to ignore and what’s worth reading. Logged onto the World Wide Web, I hunt for the date of the Battle of Trafalgar. Hundreds of files show up, and it takes 15 minutes to unravel them—one’s a biography written by an eighth grader, the second is a computer game that doesn’t work and the third is an image of a London monument. None answers my question, and my search is periodically interrupted by messages like, 'Too many connectios, try again later.'"


Although back in '95 hardware would have been a problem too. The hardware was my primary problem back then (too slow), because unlike the author I knew how to navigate search results, even Yahoo search results (shivers).

I thought it was funny that his "fifteen minutes" included trying to play a game...

[Whisky Tango Foxtrot]

The Internet became worthless after people stopped putting animated "Under Construction" GIFs on their home pages. I mean, what's the point of even having it now?