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Kind of makes me wonder what would those people say if we played them Bo Burnham's Welcome to The Internet from 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU

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I bet that lady would be pretty amped up about the streaming video quality. And all the Bill Clinton saxophone videos she could watch on there.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CRatTuWdT_Q

Also thanks for getting Bo stuck in my head for the rest of the day. That song has all the answers.

As early as 2003, popular culture was catching on to the fact that the ‘information superhighway’ had some potholes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs

Issues with the Internet date to its origins ... and inventors. Paul Baran in the 1960s, amongst others, whom I've compiled here:

<https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105074933053020193>

Sources / instances date to the 1980s or earlier, addressing specifically the false assertion by many that "nobody saw this coming".

Vernor Vinge saw it coming too. In his 1992 sci-fi novel “A Fire Upon the Deep,” set in the far future, the internet is called “The Net of a Million Lies”:

https://www.tor.com/2009/06/11/the-net-of-a-million-lies-ver...

I aspire to having a video wherein I am wearing slippers that has had 90 million views. I think I have a new way that I will define success.

And I am even more excited by thinking about what the internet will look like in 2031

Based on past experience, it is going to look a lot like the internet of today. Things just don't move that fast that 9 years will make much of a difference.

Like the internet today, but with more ads, more sponsored content, and more AI generated submarines.

Those submarines are going to be pretty sweet.

For those unfamiliar, not as wet as you might think: <http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13993>

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