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In the first edition, he did describe something very much like the Internet, except he called it the "Information Superhighway"
by Hydraulix989 3y ago
In the first edition, he did describe something very much like the Internet, except he called it the "Information Superhighway"
- DrScientist 3y agoExactly. Initially, they viewed it as a faster way to download content - rather than an application platform.
- inanutshellus 3y agoI don't quite follow? I'd say "s/download content/access information/g", but also by "late 1995" there still wasn't "oh, the internet is an application platform", it was still "connect to the whole world, whoaaaaaa".
- gumby 3y agoIn the original edition it was a centralized, walled garden, and was a library rather than any sort of application platform much less anything composable or with room for individuals to contribute. Min his view people were just “consumers”. Myhrvold, Frankston and a few others must have given him a rap on the skull because the second edition was a major rewrite in an attempt to run out in front of the parade and pretend it had always been thus. He kind of got away with it: in those days he was treated in the public mind as if he was the only person on the planet who knew anything about computers.