Ezra Klein - the internet
An interesting conversation about the internet with Tim Wu and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow. They talk about how the internet has changed from when they were kids, how optimisitic they felt then about it, and how that feeling has changed.
My first computer at home was in the mid 90s, when my sister loaned me her Macintosh Color Classic. We felt so enthusiastic and hopeful about the internet back then, even about Amazon - I placed my first order there in 1999. I still like the internet, but it has become more human over the years, with all of our frailties represented.
posted by crystal | 10:44 PM
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Our first computer was a Vic 20, back in the 80s. It was pretty basic and didn't have a lot of capability. But my husband and sons thought it was the coolest thing ever. But it quickly became not the coolest thing in town. Honestly the boys got the most mileage out of it, playing early video games like Radar Rat Race. To print stuff you had to have that paper with the green stripes and holes along the sides.
Fast forward to the late 90 s, we had a better computer and dial-up internet. That was cool until it tied up your land line (we didn't have any cell phone until later). You couldn't get any calls in or out until someone logged off the internet.
You guys were in the vanguard! :) I remember people having early personal computers like Ataris but I had no science background and the closest I came in the 80s was a class where we had to use terminals with a mainframe. My first dial up connection to the web was incredibly slow. I wanted to join that virtual world, Second Life, but my computer wasn't up to the task.
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