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I recall when I first got internet access in the early 90ies, via a text terminal. I had access to both Gopher, and the WWW, via Lynx or some other text-based b
by davidw 6y ago
I recall when I first got internet access in the early 90ies, via a text terminal. I had access to both Gopher, and the WWW, via Lynx or some other text-based browser. I thought the WWW stuff looked very disorganized and ugly compared to the more nicely-organized and hierarchical Gopher, and wasn't really sure the 'web' thing would catch on.
I try and keep that in mind when I feel too tempted to get into the predictions game.
I wouldn't get into Bitcoin either, though.
- aargh_aargh 6y agoWhen I first got on the internet, there was Altavista and there were some web directories. Alstavista was nice, but the directories were much more organized and I saw them as the future, so much that at one point I even maintained some categories at dmoz. When Google took off to the point that non-tech people I knew recognized it and dmoz closed down, I was pretty disappointed even though Google was clearly the future by then (And it was better at actually finding stuff back then. Nowadays it's an echo chamber and worse, it just feeds you anything, I don't think I've seen a "no results found" page in a decade.).
- danaliv 6y agoDon’t feel too bad. I thought Java was DOA. Oops. (Might be fun to do a “your worst tech predictions” topic on HN.)