The discussions you get into and the people who get upset on Facebook is only rivaled by those who troll the endless labyrinthine tunnels of Internet forums.
Back in the day. 1990's, When forums were new and Binaries were old. I was such a troll. Of course the World wide web had yet to realize that it could be would be anything other than a wet dream inspired by a bunch of Computer Science nerds and Steve Jobs or Al Gore- depends on who you ask. In truth, the WWW was still a bad idea in a bunch of businessy nerd brains who were looking to commercialize what had all the promise and utter dullness that the net offered at the time. The internet was not this beautiful place filled with colorful homepages and websites with pictures and such. It was basically a text driven interface with peoples ideas and opinions- well mostly opinion spread through its scope via the binaries and forums and BBB's that gave the "net" it reality.
Sure we all wanted it to look like the Grid (Tron) but it never has. When I first saw Hackers I laughed my way through the net sequences almost as much as I did through LMM (Lawnmower Man). Hollywood has the most out of touch understanding of how the internet works and for that matter how computers work. I have seen almost no movies or TV where the computers work like they would in real life (until very recently)
Still we have hit the peak of interface with Man's greatest Digital Achievement.
The Facebook post and subsequent discussion forum where we all try really hard to have aweful grammar, spelling, English and look really smart or really stupid.
There we really can expand our social consciousness or drop down into what is fast becoming the Tennessee model of Stupid blindsided stubborn Ignorance that is self inflicted by believing in every backwards anti reason statement issued over the other various posts and webpages across the net.
There I said it.
The net has not expanded people's minds so much as closed them.
What happened to reason and intelligent thought?
They were misquoted and largely misinterpreted by idiots who have ignorant close minded agendas which they will use FB and other venues to ram down every ones throats just so they can sleep at night or say look I told you so.
over and over and over again.
Back in the day. 1990's, When forums were new and Binaries were old. I was such a troll. Of course the World wide web had yet to realize that it could be would be anything other than a wet dream inspired by a bunch of Computer Science nerds and Steve Jobs or Al Gore- depends on who you ask. In truth, the WWW was still a bad idea in a bunch of businessy nerd brains who were looking to commercialize what had all the promise and utter dullness that the net offered at the time. The internet was not this beautiful place filled with colorful homepages and websites with pictures and such. It was basically a text driven interface with peoples ideas and opinions- well mostly opinion spread through its scope via the binaries and forums and BBB's that gave the "net" it reality.
Sure we all wanted it to look like the Grid (Tron) but it never has. When I first saw Hackers I laughed my way through the net sequences almost as much as I did through LMM (Lawnmower Man). Hollywood has the most out of touch understanding of how the internet works and for that matter how computers work. I have seen almost no movies or TV where the computers work like they would in real life (until very recently)
Still we have hit the peak of interface with Man's greatest Digital Achievement.
The Facebook post and subsequent discussion forum where we all try really hard to have aweful grammar, spelling, English and look really smart or really stupid.
There we really can expand our social consciousness or drop down into what is fast becoming the Tennessee model of Stupid blindsided stubborn Ignorance that is self inflicted by believing in every backwards anti reason statement issued over the other various posts and webpages across the net.
There I said it.
The net has not expanded people's minds so much as closed them.
What happened to reason and intelligent thought?
They were misquoted and largely misinterpreted by idiots who have ignorant close minded agendas which they will use FB and other venues to ram down every ones throats just so they can sleep at night or say look I told you so.
over and over and over again.
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