{"id":2230,"date":"2012-08-31T18:27:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T18:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aulas.pro.br\/paulo\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2012-08-31T18:28:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T18:28:24","slug":"funny-old-videos-predicting-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/?p=2230","title":{"rendered":"Funny Old Videos Predicting the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/shareables\/2012\/08\/25\/not-word-porn-piracy-early-conversations-internet\/\">Funny Old Videos Predicting the Internet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia informs us that there was a time before the Internet. Sadly,\u00a0I have spent so long online that my memories only go back as far as my first tagged Facebook photo in 2007. Here are some videos of people talking about and predicting the Internet, which are now on the Internet (mind, blown). Some of them are pretty funny.<\/p>\n<h3>Mad Men style computing (oh, the hipsters would have loved this)<\/h3>\n<p>Here\u2019s the Internet circa 1969, complete with women shopping\u00a0and men being serious. They got a lot of it surprisingly accurately, but were concentrating so hard on the tech they missed all the social changes. Who would have thought that women would have their own bank accounts to pay for all those pretty dresses in the near future?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y0pPfyYtiBc?fs=1&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>\u201cWhat is Internet, anyway?\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Watch the presenters of NBC\u2019s Today show get all confused with the Internet and the @ symbol. This segment wasn\u2019t aired, but it\u2019s a funny little insight into the early days of the web, when many of us weren\u2019t too bothered or just plain confused\u00a0about this silly new fad.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JUs7iG1mNjI?fs=1&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>When music and the Internet were still friends<\/h3>\n<p>MTV aired\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.56.com\/u80\/v_NjI0NDY1NDE.html\">this feature<\/a>\u00a0on music and the Internet way back in 1995. Of course, this was four years before Napster sent the music industry into piracy paranoia, so the artists interviewed are all wide eyed and optimistic with the possibilities of messaging their freaky fans. And it was all long before Twitter would come along and make it super easy to hurl abuse at any artist you fancy. I think there were fewer trolls back then \u2014 it just took so much more effort on dial-up.<\/p>\n<h3>Fifth-graders in 1995 accidentally predict the Internet in 2012<\/h3>\n<p>These kids are from the generation who formed the Internet we all enjoy today, so maybe that\u2019s why it\u2019s now mostly videos, shopping and cats. The only thing they missed was the mountains of porn.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4m4KZHDVWRE?fs=1&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Overly optimist\u00a0Isaac Asimov<\/h3>\n<p>Sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov believed the Internet would democratize learning and make it more fun. Why, just let the people follow their own \u2018bent\u2019 and they\u2019ll learn on their own, he says. Sorry Isaac, they don\u2019t, they\u2019ll look at cat photos, boobies, play Farmville, then look at more boobies.<\/p>\n<p>Asimov optimistically hypothesises that, although children may start by looking at baseball all day, they will gradually move towards\u2026 math. Has he ever met a child? Maybe children were different back then, but I don\u2019t think you can just let them roam free and hope they\u2019ll aim for math. Most\u00a0adults\u00a0can\u2019t stay on track online, let alone children. Asimov, people don\u2019t learn online, they look at memes and Moshi Monsters. I\u2019m sorry, but that\u2019s the way it turned out.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ZmFEFO72gA?fs=1&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Beware the Googlezon!<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/idorosen.com\/mirrors\/robinsloan.com\/epic\/ols-master.html\">This mock documentary<\/a>\u00a0released in November 2004 painted a frightening picture of the Internet\u2019s future effect on publishing and journalism. In this ominous vision, Google and Amazon combine forces to become Googlezon in 2008, suck all the revenue out of news and by 2010 the NYT stops publishing online, replaced by the evil Googlezon and an army of free bloggers.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s pretty accurate in its themes though, as Google\u00a0does\u00a0make money linking to other peoples work, something that we\u2019ve come to accept. However, it used to be the\u00a0cause\u00a0of massive debate and as recently as 2009 Murdoch threatened to remove all News Corp links from Google. But the big disappointment in these\u00a0dramatic predictions is clearly the lack of cheap digital paper. I like my iPad, but I\u2019m still waiting on my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jLEeDla2u40\">minority report style<\/a>\u00a0USA Today to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>Excuse the lack of embedding on this one, the content\u2019s so retro that it was published a year before YouTube was born and you\u2019ll have to click this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/idorosen.com\/mirrors\/robinsloan.com\/epic\/ols-master.html\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Some old British bloke got it right!<\/h3>\n<p>Way back in 1974, Arthur C. Clarke predicted the Internet and PC more accurately than anyone. Here\u2019s a video of him chatting to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The stuff he came out with must have seemed like fanciful nonsense down under, where they didn\u2019t even have full colour broadcasts yet. Ten years earlier in 1964 he\u2019d made some\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KT_8-pjuctM\">pretty crazy predictions<\/a>\u00a0that still haven\u2019t happened, so I\u2019m eagerly awaiting my Total Recall style memory enhancements and genetically engineered dolphin-monkey servants.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OIRZebE8O84?fs=1&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>And finally\u2026<\/h3>\n<p>Here\u2019s an old TV ad that has absolutely nothing to do with the Internet, but does show life before Starbucks. Who in the 60s would have thought there\u2019d be a day when a man could go to one of 100 local Starbucks and avoid his wife\u2019s \u2018disgusting coffee\u2019? I even know of men who learned to make coffee themselves, you know.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cnjjkgIO3Ck?fs=1&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Image Credit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/k3k0\/3975819685\/\">Serge C<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny Old Videos Predicting the Internet. Wikipedia informs us that there was a time before the Internet. Sadly,\u00a0I have spent so long online that my memories only go back as far as my first tagged Facebook photo in 2007. 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