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Kind of makes me wonder what would those people say if we played them Bo Burnham's Welcome to The Internet from 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDc

Kind of makes me wonder what would those people say if we played them Bo Burnham's Welcome to The Internet from 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU

april_22 4y ago
And I am even more excited by thinking about what the internet will look like in 2031
- AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
- irrational 4y ago
  Based on past experience, it is going to look a lot like the internet of today. Things just don't move that fast that 9 years will make much of a difference.
  - adrianN 4y ago
    Like the internet today, but with more ads, more sponsored content, and more AI generated submarines.
    - pkdpic 4y ago
      Those submarines are going to be pretty sweet.
      - dredmorbius 4y ago
        For those unfamiliar, not as wet as you might think: <http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13993 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13993>
cainxinth 4y ago
As early as 2003, popular culture was catching on to the fact that the ‘information superhighway’ had some potholes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs
- dredmorbius 4y ago
  Issues with the Internet date to its origins ... and inventors. Paul Baran in the 1960s, amongst others, whom I've compiled here: <https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105074933053020193 https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105074933053020193> Sources / instances date to the 1980s or earlier, addressing specifically the false assertion by many that "nobody saw this coming".
  - cainxinth 4y ago
    Vernor Vinge saw it coming too. In his 1992 sci-fi novel “A Fire Upon the Deep,” set in the far future, the internet is called “The Net of a Million Lies”: https://www.tor.com/2009/06/11/the-net-of-a-million-lies-vernor-vinges-a-fire-upon-the-deep/comment-page-1 https://www.tor.com/2009/06/11/the-net-of-a-million-lies-ver...
pkdpic 4y ago
I bet that lady would be pretty amped up about the streaming video quality. And all the Bill Clinton saxophone videos she could watch on there. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CRatTuWdT_Q https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CRatTuWdT_Q Also thanks for getting Bo stuck in my head for the rest of the day. That song has all the answers.
justinlloyd 4y ago
I aspire to having a video wherein I am wearing slippers that has had 90 million views. I think I have a new way that I will define success.

april_22 4y ago

And I am even more excited by thinking about what the internet will look like in 2031

AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
irrational 4y ago
Based on past experience, it is going to look a lot like the internet of today. Things just don't move that fast that 9 years will make much of a difference.
- adrianN 4y ago
  Like the internet today, but with more ads, more sponsored content, and more AI generated submarines.
  - pkdpic 4y ago
    Those submarines are going to be pretty sweet.
    - dredmorbius 4y ago
      For those unfamiliar, not as wet as you might think: <http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13993 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13993>

cainxinth 4y ago

As early as 2003, popular culture was catching on to the fact that the ‘information superhighway’ had some potholes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs

dredmorbius 4y ago
Issues with the Internet date to its origins ... and inventors. Paul Baran in the 1960s, amongst others, whom I've compiled here: <https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105074933053020193 https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105074933053020193> Sources / instances date to the 1980s or earlier, addressing specifically the false assertion by many that "nobody saw this coming".
- cainxinth 4y ago
  Vernor Vinge saw it coming too. In his 1992 sci-fi novel “A Fire Upon the Deep,” set in the far future, the internet is called “The Net of a Million Lies”: https://www.tor.com/2009/06/11/the-net-of-a-million-lies-vernor-vinges-a-fire-upon-the-deep/comment-page-1 https://www.tor.com/2009/06/11/the-net-of-a-million-lies-ver...

pkdpic 4y ago

I bet that lady would be pretty amped up about the streaming video quality. And all the Bill Clinton saxophone videos she could watch on there. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CRatTuWdT_Q https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CRatTuWdT_Q Also thanks for getting Bo stuck in my head for the rest of the day. That song has all the answers.

justinlloyd 4y ago

I aspire to having a video wherein I am wearing slippers that has had 90 million views. I think I have a new way that I will define success.