The internet is already over (2022)

Re:The internet is already over (2022) by ssl-3 on Sunday July 07, 2024 @05:10PM (#40900458)

Back in the day of The Internet of 1994, HHGTTG was only 15 years old.

But today, HHGTTG is very nearly 45 years old.

For how many decades should references to novel fiction persist, do you suppose?

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Re:The internet is already over (2022) by peterleiser on Sunday July 07, 2024 @06:32PM (#40901043)

42 years, and then never mention it again.

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Re:The internet is already over (2022) by saulpw on Sunday July 07, 2024 @05:41PM (#40900666)

It's hard to believe that a 15-year-old book was a defining cultural touchstone. What do we have from 2009 that has the reach of HHGTTG in 1994? Twilight? Hunger Games?

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Re:The internet is already over (2022) by ssl-3 on Sunday July 07, 2024 @07:26PM (#40901322)

We didn't read books in 2009 like we did in 1979.

In 2009, we already had pocket supercomputers.

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Re:The internet is already over (2022) by KineticLensman on Sunday July 07, 2024 @05:25PM (#40900557)

The TV version was broadcast just over 42 (!) years ago

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Re:The internet is already over (2022) by account42 on Monday July 08, 2024 @11:39AM (#40906362)

I think you are missing the point. It's not that interest in these things is what is essential to the old internet but that a shared interest and shared language is - and this includes as gp has pointed out metaphors and imagery.

But to your question, Tolkien, Asimov, Lovecraft, et al. are still a heavy influence on modern Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Horror. Why do you think a mere 45 years should mean that something is no longer referenced?

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