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Well, there was Clifford Stoll's "Silicon Snake Oil" from 1995 in which Stoll (who had been using computers and the Net for quite some time and had famously cau
by jhbadger 3y ago
Well, there was Clifford Stoll's "Silicon Snake Oil" from 1995 in which Stoll (who had been using computers and the Net for quite some time and had famously caught a hacker spy as described in his "The Cuckoo's Egg"), although he was mostly claiming that the early consumer Internet was overhyped. He was right and wrong. Yes, there was the dot-com crash of 2000, so it was somewhat overhyped, but Stoll also claimed that nobody would want to shop online when they could just go to a store, which clearly wasn't the case.
- newswasboring 3y agoI really enjoyed The Cuckoo's Egg, I loved his writing. I will not let go of the chance to encourage people to read that book. It's amazing and worth your time. Will check this out. Thanks for the recommendation.