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Re:End of Cycle? by amyjess on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @03:13PM (#12045200)
> He (and many others) predicted things like Netflix and the information super highway but they got the delivery mechanism dead wrong - people were convinced it was going to be over cable TV networks.

Oh yes, I remember how around 1994 people were predicting the rise of "interactive TV" that would take over the world in 1997. The descriptions of what "interactive TV" would do were very similar to the web.

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Re:End of Cycle? by VLM on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @04:22PM (#12045641)
The immediate predecessor of that was the multimedia CDROM. Its all the same idea and same skills of course. The course curricula for a BSCS with a specialization in multimedia in 1993 is identical to webdev in 2016 except for obvious language syntax differences. Graphic arts/design classes from the art school, marketing classes from the biz school, a couple programming classes, etc.
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Re:End of Cycle? by tostitos1979 on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @04:39PM (#12045749)
Ha .. almost forgot that one. Do you remember Encarta? Wikipedia of the old days :)
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