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[Limmo]

Short but sweet.  He's right, the Internet was not supposed to be this way.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Kid Kid Yellin' ROCKS!  Made me laugh out loud in my office.  I bet that station plays my favorite band, the Angry White Guys with Guitars and Goatees (featuring Shouty Guy Who Can't Rap and Really Shouldn't Try to Rap).

All goin' off on Tom.  Priceless.

[CortJstr]

And to add to that, starting off calling them 'a bunch of haircuts' was excellent.

Also: 'Algorythms of your ass curves'.  I get a hoot when Ray tries to sound like he's layin' down the science.

The sad part is come censorware companies have actually tried this tactic to filter nekkid images.

Ray's lucky, my local Clear Channel and Viacom montrosities only play Kid Kid Yellin'

[slink]

Jesus, the internet was not meant to be this way.

[V-Adore]

I have a feeling Little Nephew is really into Kid Kid Yellin' this week and Ray is just lashing out.

[wombat]

But how was the Internet supposed to be? I can't even remember anymore.

[andalucia]

Mostly like that 1995 computer sales page, as I recall.  Not really something to be nostalgic for.

[AlohaDawg]

It was lists and lists of posts and files. There was this thing that made all manner of squealing and popping noises before connecting you at 1200 baud. Nothing happened quite in real time.

Then there was this thing called CompuServe. It went both uphill and downhill at the same time when Jesus and Al Gore invented the 'internet' as we know it today. Not to mention colors and graphics that weren't created using 1.3 million ASCII characters.

It basically sucked but it seemed really cool at the time.

[wombat]

There was this thing that made all manner of squealing and popping noises before connecting you at 1200 baud.

Oh oh yeah I remember that!

We had nothing like Achewood then.  They were dark days.

[CortJstr]

But how was the Internet supposed to be? I can't even remember anymore.

It was all about the gopher, baby!

[St_Zartan]

D00D
I AM L33T
GIVE ME WAR3Z

DO J00 KNOW HOW TO MAKE A.... BEIGE BOX?!?!??! LEECH ACCESS FOR CO-SYSOPS ONLY!!!1

C:\Uploads\Unsorted\> get RaDiOsH~1.txt

(insert three-page-long ASCII image of Iron Maiden's "Eddie" with a flamethrower and a big American flag)

[arkabee]

(insert three-page-long ASCII image of Iron Maiden's "Eddie" with a flamethrower and a big American flag)

w00t.

does anyone remember what Apple's "aol" was called?  i forget.

it sucked at 2400baud.   not that it was that old, just my modem was.

[AlohaDawg]

History of the Internet

Weird, wonderful stuff.

"In 10,000 years, our offspring will exist as pure thoughts. They will have achieved immortality."

[slink]

"In 10,000 years, our offspring will exist as pure thoughts. They will have achieved immortality."

Well, hell yea!

This is like you say a, fascinating read. I keep thinking Akira. Only, like, we're Tetsuo, or something.

"With the grid, we can imagine Femi Kuti, in Lagos, and Janet Jackson, in Los Angeles, both singing a live duet on a digital stage. The world will become their virtual digital stage."

But oh dear God do we have to encourage them? They're going to think it's The Diamond Age.

Oh, and:
"That is, we will succeed in imbedding inanimate intelligence into animate intelligence and living beings. Frankly, the question is no longer "can we?" It is: "should we?""

Or possibly 'can we avoid it'?

[St_Zartan]

"With the grid, we can imagine Femi Kuti, in Lagos..."

Because nothing screams "the future is now" like modern technology in the hands of Nigerians.