At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared

Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared by digi_owl on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @03:32PM (#14404444)

Yeah the net didn't really boom until we could use the web to shop, effectively turning it into a more accessible mail order catalog.

These days it seems to have turned into something akin to TV shop, with the addition of an interactive link on top of the video stream.

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Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared by Banthum on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:20PM (#14404948)

Eh, I think the net boomed without needing online shopping. Lots of people were and are using the Net 99%-100% of the time for non-shopping purposes. The net boom drivers were:

-Email

-Funny cat pics/videos, etc. eBaumsWorld etc

-News/blogs/forums

-Online gaming

-Porn

-YouTube (see above)

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Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared by digi_owl on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @06:59PM (#14406155)

Outside of email what you list largely came after the dot-coms bubble crashed.

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Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared by eru on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @06:42PM (#14414021)

Porn was alive and well before. Forums as well. Blogs came later, if I remember right. Online gaming existed, but was much smaller (of course).

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Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared by dragonwriter on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @06:48PM (#14414045)

Blogs were around long before, and the term "blog" to refer to them was even coined around the beginning of the .com bubble (1997) , not after the crash (2000-2002).

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Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared by eru on Thursday May 25, 2017 @04:02PM (#14419745)

Thanks!

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