@rolle I remember someone at a used computer store telling me very earnestly that the Internet would collapse because there was no way that the network could support more than a couple million users. This was circa 1995.
When I was a doctoral student in ~1994, when I first saw Mosaic (the first graphical web-browser), I went to my advisor and said I wanted to do my dissertation on the educational use of hypertext. He said, "Well… I don't really know much about that. And this whole World Wide Web thing? Nothing might ever come of that."
@rolle it's always funny to read people that don't use mastodon, hate on mastodon. If only they knew how nice it was, but alas, they chose to be salty :)
@rolle To be fair, just because some people were wrong in the past about something becoming a big thing in the future, that isn't really an argument for any specific thing to last.
I'm gonna bet you that the NFT guys were also pointing to this article a lot 😂
the internet, like the call quality on phones, is something where it's not so much succeeding by making it better but "succeeding" by sufficiently lowering user expectations of quality. :D
the twitter debacle is certainly helping the fediverse/mastodon in that regard...
@rolle To be fair, that article is from the Daily Mail, which has never been known for it's forward looking progressive news.
FYI, I was part of a small team in 1996 who won a Queens Award for Industry for the implementation of the IBM Europe website. That's almost 30-years ago... remarkable.
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