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Katie Couric dropping truth bombs in ’94
:55 Bryant Gumbel does not grok
I’ve always had a crush on Katie Couric
Now replace the word internet with bitcoin
@ = AROUND ABOUT
It’s very hip to be on the internet right now. Adjusts enormous glasses.
I remember I was 12 in 1995 and having these exact same thought processes. My family didn’t get ‘internet’ until a few years later. I remember connecting it up and not know what on Earth was going to happen.
Not long after, I found the Playboy Cyber Club which had a 500 free hours deal which you could get repeatedly and I never looked back
Tim & Eric’s Innernette is so much better and fits on a tiny disc. https://youtu.be/Y5BZkaWZAAA
Graphics department couldn’t make an @ symbol so they just drew a circle around an a.
Laughing at that last clip.
E-mail, Internet messaging and SMS were adopted so readily precisely because it gives you a lot more control. Millennials and Gen-Z hate talking on the phone for the most part and a ringing phone is seen as entirely too pushy a way to communicate since it takes away so much choice.
We like our electronic, delayed communication with powerful blocking tools.
1994 was my first year on the internet too and while I can’t remember a whole lot of it the big draw was IRC for me back then, I can look through news groups and find a post from myself in 1995 as well and I was talking about Doom. I think 1995 was one of the first years the Web was big enough to spend a lot of time exploring or at least there were early search engines and good index pages which made that more possible.