Comments on: Internet. What Internet? http://conversations.nokia.com/2008/08/15/internet-what-internet/ Stories from around the Nokia neighbourhood Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:12:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Steven Hoober http://conversations.nokia.com/2008/08/15/internet-what-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-671 Steven Hoober Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:54:44 +0000 http://conversations.nokia.com/?p=387#comment-671 > Or would they just not give a damn and instead get on and use it. I vote that way. I used the internet in the mid/late 80s. Didn't really actively realize what I was doing until the next decade, when the term came to prominence and made magazine covers. It was just a tool that let me browse card catalogs (and do similar boring tasks) from the dorm room or my house, instead of walking somewhere to use a terminal for /that building only/, and so forth. Some people will be thrilled, some will be smarter than me and do great things, but I tend to believe most folks want to get on with their lives and will just accept all this tech as another tool. > Or would they just not give a damn and instead get on and use it.

I vote that way. I used the internet in the mid/late 80s. Didn’t really actively realize what I was doing until the next decade, when the term came to prominence and made magazine covers. It was just a tool that let me browse card catalogs (and do similar boring tasks) from the dorm room or my house, instead of walking somewhere to use a terminal for /that building only/, and so forth.

Some people will be thrilled, some will be smarter than me and do great things, but I tend to believe most folks want to get on with their lives and will just accept all this tech as another tool.

]]> By: Mark http://conversations.nokia.com/2008/08/15/internet-what-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-672 Mark Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:59:17 +0000 http://conversations.nokia.com/?p=387#comment-672 Yeah but what level did he reach on MUD ;-) Yeah but what level did he reach on MUD ;-)

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