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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor

 

A 1995 Newsweek essay on why people will never buy books or airline tickets online, why the internet won't replace newspapers, and why "no computer network will change the way government works."

theinternetaccordingtoadrian:

ronworkman:

(via:nickdouglas)

Those damn “Internet hucksters”.

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    Can you say, oops?
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    article. fascinating.
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    i was 8 years old. i was in the third grade. and i was already a fucking pro on the net, even though we didn’t have our...
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    Total time warp, folks
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    That’s pretty priceless. Makes me really wonder where the internet will be in another 15 years.
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    This article starts: “After two decades online, I’m perplexed.” - Really? You’ve been using The Internet since 1975 and...
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    (vianickdouglas)
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    Few things have made me this happy.
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    Well that didn’t work out.
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    1995 essay in Newsweek predicting that...Internet will end up being a big flop that will...