The Internet - 1995

**sharpdressedscot** · 25th March 08, 05:41 AM

If only they knew...

**Ian.MacAllan** · 25th March 08, 08:56 AM

What caught my eye in the Newsweek article was the number of typos in it. Much of the commercial speech on the web today is significantly better written and better edited than that article.

It is certainly true that there is a mountain of misinformation on the web today, but it is equally true that there was much misinformation in the printed media of the pre-computer era also. Critical reading has always been necessary.

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**Coinneach** · 25th March 08, 09:15 AM

Somewhere in my files of ancient history, I have an email from a friend of mine who was excited by having found a site on the Internet that sold books...at a discount. "It's called Amazon." I think that was in 1996.

**Coemgen** · 25th March 08, 10:03 AM

Originally Posted by Coinneach

Somewhere in my files of ancient history, I have an email from a friend of mine who was excited by having found a site on the Internet that sold books...at a discount. "It's called Amazon." I think that was in 1996.

I still remember the first Amazon commercial I saw a-way back when.

It was Christmas time and a bunch of guys were standing around singing 'I spent two minutes, two minutes, two minutes shopping for your giiiiiiiift…" That's all I recall, but it was pretty funny.