Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

Re:Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video] by the_jesus_villa on Friday September 23, 2022 @09:42AM (#32951846)

Ironically, I just ran into this phrase last week while reading an anthropology paper from the 90's ("Maya Hackers and the Cyberspatialized Nation-State: Modernity, Ethnostalgia, and a Lizard Queen in Guatemala")

Whenever I hear this phrase it reminds me the part in the book Cryptonomicon where the pretentious humanities professor feels so clever for asking "How many slums will we bulldoze to build the Information Superhighway?"

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Re:Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video] by EvanAnderson on Friday September 23, 2022 @10:02AM (#32952070)

Oh, ugh... Memories of all the awful road metaphor headlines of the time are flooding back-- "Breaking Down on the Information Superhighway", "Traffic Jams...",

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Re:Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video] by frank_nitti on Friday September 23, 2022 @12:10PM (#32953819)

Unfortunately that term brings an even more awful memory back for me and many others, as That enthusiasm was used for a brazen lie to the American public: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...

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