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What’s the Internet? – Hilarious Video of NBC’s The Today Show in 1994

5 points by kkleiner 16y ago

RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
Submitted lots of times. Here are a few: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2156163 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2156163 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157322 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157322 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2159550 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2159550 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2161820 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2161820 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2163105 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2163105 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2163466 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2163466 Currently no comments on any of them.
- TomOfTTB 16y ago
  Well there are a lot of examples of items that get submitted to HN and go unnoticed only to be posted 2 days later and get to the top of the front page. This video, aside from being hilarious, is actually very informative. As someone who has been on usenet since elementary school I really didn't grasp how clueless the average person was in 1994 until I saw this video. It shows you just how far we've come in less than 20 years and really puts a lot of things in perspective (at least as far as I'm concerned)
  - RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
    > there are a lot of examples of items that get submitted > to HN and go unnoticed only to be posted 2 days later and > get to the top of the front page. Agreed, and I see that as a developing problem. It didn't seem to happen as often two years ago, or even one year ago, but it seems to be happening a lot now. A consequence is that a significant proportion of submissions are duplicated stories. It would be nice to ensure that stories people obviously like (because they are submitted repeatedly) actually got noticed the first time around. There are simply too many submissions for people to see them all, and so many good submissions are simply lost in the noise. If they get noticed then they get upvoted and hit the front page, but many sink without trace. The resubmissions are indirect evidence that we are missing potentially valuable stories. It would be nice to fix that.

5 points by kkleiner 16y ago

Submitted lots of times. Here are a few: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2156163 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2156163 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157322 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157322 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2159550 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2159550 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2161820 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2161820 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2163105 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2163105 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2163466 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2163466 Currently no comments on any of them.

TomOfTTB 16y ago
Well there are a lot of examples of items that get submitted to HN and go unnoticed only to be posted 2 days later and get to the top of the front page. This video, aside from being hilarious, is actually very informative. As someone who has been on usenet since elementary school I really didn't grasp how clueless the average person was in 1994 until I saw this video. It shows you just how far we've come in less than 20 years and really puts a lot of things in perspective (at least as far as I'm concerned)
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
  > there are a lot of examples of items that get submitted > to HN and go unnoticed only to be posted 2 days later and > get to the top of the front page. Agreed, and I see that as a developing problem. It didn't seem to happen as often two years ago, or even one year ago, but it seems to be happening a lot now. A consequence is that a significant proportion of submissions are duplicated stories. It would be nice to ensure that stories people obviously like (because they are submitted repeatedly) actually got noticed the first time around. There are simply too many submissions for people to see them all, and so many good submissions are simply lost in the noise. If they get noticed then they get upvoted and hit the front page, but many sink without trace. The resubmissions are indirect evidence that we are missing potentially valuable stories. It would be nice to fix that.