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Retro Video: when Internet was civil
I love the quote from playwright John Allen, who really understood how "Internet" could connect physically disparate affinity groups. John also says, "there's an interesting kind of restraint that you find. ...There's not a lot of put-downs... not screenfulls of 'go to hell.'" My how times of changed. These days anonymity and "Internet" are synonymous with flame wars and cyberbullying. One can only hope that recent pleas for civility on the web will get us back to these good ol' days of newsgroups and bulletin boards.
We'll keep an eye out for more retro videos and post them here.
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Subscribe to commentsDachFeb 5th 2009 6:15PM
I like how the terminology changed over the course of the 6½ minute piece, from "Internet" to "the internet" and even just "the net." Could that be the first meme?
GRTerreroFeb 5th 2009 7:12PM
I believe that PC was the first meme. Followed by computer virus and then, computer crash, and then sh*t!
RocketboyFeb 5th 2009 7:15PM
$200 a year? Screw that. I'll stick with my FREE BBS'es thank you very much.
Muffin_manFeb 5th 2009 7:48PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn4FljUQ
Victor Agreda JrFeb 5th 2009 8:44PM
Heh, yeah, that was the video I was going to post NEXT week.
joemFeb 5th 2009 11:10PM
And what about the porn?! Surely that existed a-plenty, even back then...
WolvenSpectreFeb 5th 2009 11:23PM
Ah, I remember cringing and feeling a little bit excited when I watched that segment on CBC's flagship nightly news "The National" with the man who introduced the segment Peter Mansbridge (still the Achorman only allot more bald).
Trust me people in the know already knew it was called "The Internet" it was supposedly an error on the part of a researcher that everyone not being sure one way or the other repeated all the way up the chain.
Its still available online in a bit better quality in the CBC archives here (segment 6): http://archives.cbc.ca/science_technology/computers/topics/1738/
MikeFeb 6th 2009 8:32AM
It was indeed a great time -- it was before the commercialisation of the Internet and before spam. It was also before kids got access, so most of the discussions were, as the program says, between mature and educated people (most people then got access via a university).
harmacyFeb 7th 2009 7:52AM
I love the quote from playwright John Allen when he says "The thing though that I'm always left with when I leave is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted, and the only way they feel rooted is through another person" (i.e. "root" being slang for "sexual intercourse" here in New Zealand and many other parts of the world!!!).