Re: Significant moments in the internet's history
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:07 am
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And Paypal too. It's changed the way we buy.garmabeaneth wrote:i have to admit i love online banking! sure is convienant!
Of the list, which is I Love You Bug, Y2K Bug, Gmail, XP, Wi-Fi, Email, Instant Messaging, Myspace/Facebook, Wikipedia, Youtube, Google, Napster, Ebay, Microchip Technology, Hotmail, Broadband, ARCHIVE.ORG, Linux, Skype/Voip, Paypal, IMDB, Online Banking, Internet Meme's, Internet Forums, IRC, what would your top 10 be?<pokesthelippyfish> microchip, email, instant messaging, napster, google, broadband, ebay, youtube, wiki, wifi
<scacricket001> Youtube, Google, Wikipedia, Napster, Broadband, Hotmail, Email, Myspace/Facebook, Paypal, Ebay
<scacricket001> that is my top 10
<battye> out of curiosity, what do you think the most important internet moments are - from this list: I Love You Bug, Y2K Bug, Gmail, XP, Wi-Fi, Email, Instant Messaging, Myspace/Facebook, Wikipedia, Youtube, Google, Napster, Ebay, Microchip Technology, Hotmail, Broadband, ARCHIVE.ORG, Linux, Skype/Voip, Paypal, IMDB, Online Banking, Internet Meme's, Internet Forums, IRC
<Ed_L> broadband
<battye> as #1?
<Ed_L> yes
<Highway_of_Life> Ed_L: done
<Ed_L> i wouldn't count microchips, archive.org, linux, imdb or memes as historic
<Ed_L> Highway_of_Life: thanks
<battye> I wouldn't either
<battye> although some people I talked to really put microchips up there
<Highway_of_Life> Broadband, battye
<Highway_of_Life> Google would be a close #2\
<battye> I thought Youtube was #1
<battye> I also put Google 2nd
<Ed_L> youtube is important as the poster boy of web 2.0, so it'd be 3 or 4
<Ed_L> IRC... yeah, more amazing it's lasted so long rather than a big bang kind of thing
<Highway_of_Life> I really didn't pay much attention to and hardly visited youtube until middle/late last year, I still don't visit it that often.
<battye> What about Napster
<Highway_of_Life> what about it?
<Ed_L> that would rank up there
<Highway_of_Life> I hardly know what Napster is.
<Ed_L> the grandfather of computer piracy
<battye> The first mainstream P2P client
<Highway_of_Life> eww and eww.
<battye> yum YUM!
<battye> lol
<Highway_of_Life> hehe
<battye> although in fairness, I think iTunes is becoming a more reliable medium
<Highway_of_Life> I used iTunes daily and often, but I've never purchased a single song or video off of iTunes
<Ed_L> gmail isn't significant. revolutionary in that it expanded the marked but it didn't really create anything new
<battye> Hotmail is more significant I think because it was the very first free webmail
<battye> well
<Ed_L> yeah
<battye> among the first
<battye> the first popular one anyway
<battye> I buy a lot of music on iTunes now
<Ed_L> XP for the same reason - in the desktop PC market it was highly significant, but internet wise nothing much happened
<battye> But if iTunes doesn't have it, P2P it is. Once criticism I have of iTunes is that it needs to expands its library to be more international
<Ed_L> you forgot the .com boom and bust
<Ed_L> that's where ebay, paypa, etc came from
<Highway_of_Life> eBay made a big impact early on. YouTube, Wikipedia and Google I group together as "Information delivery"
<battye> I agree with that
<Ed_L> yeah
<Ed_L> although youtube and wikipedia are both significant for their own, unique reasons
<battye> Does anyone here mind if I post the meat of this chat on my forum - there is a topic dedicated to it. I'll leave out the bertie bot bit though...
<Ed_L> hehe
<Ed_L> sure
<battye> HoL?
<Highway_of_Life> e-mail could be ranked pretty high, but we've had it so long it's easy to forget about it, or what kind of impact it made when we used to mail everything through snail mail.
<Highway_of_Life> battye: don't mind
<battye> Yeah, email really has changed the way we communicate
<battye> Cheers
<Ed_L> wifi is also important, but more communications rather than internet
<battye> How popular is Skype really?
<Ed_L> if that makes sense
<Highway_of_Life> Myspace, Facebook and even YouTube led the way for Social communication, they've had a big impact for friends to keep track of friends in weird ways.
<Ed_L> yeah, they really shifted the focus from the content to the user
<Highway_of_Life> Ed_L: yes... like XP, it's more hardware, outside of the internet... you could have and can do that with local networks
<Highway_of_Life> Skype broke the bonds of international voice communication. Enabling users to now phone a friend halfway across the world and not have to pay international phone fees.
<battye> Myspace would be much better if it wasn't for the shocking designs
<Highway_of_Life> Myspace would be much better if it was much better.
<battye> It had potential, but they blew it
<Ed_L> skype really was the first program to bring VoIP to the consumers
<battye> Yeah well I was going to say that too HoL, but didn't want to offend anyone here that uses it
<Highway_of_Life> they made some major mistakes like using ColdFusion... enabling users to post as much videos, pictures, and graphics effectively overloading your browser on some pages.
<Ed_L> i dunno, i think that a lot of the problems are people trying to represent Myspace as something it's not
<Highway_of_Life> and then you have the flood of self promotion and advertising, the mass "post" spam, and hordes of other issues that it brought us...
<Highway_of_Life> and then it defeated the purpose when everyone got in a race to see how many friends they could get...
<Ed_L> yeah it's got terrible designs and content, but it was never designed to bring together the great web designers and nobel prize winners
<Highway_of_Life> then your "friends" list was no longer made up of "friends"
<Highway_of_Life> so I think people started heading to sites like Facebook, and that brough it's popularity up, aside from it being open source, the ability for rapid and easy expansion, including ways developers were able to manipulate how facebook evolved. Unlike Myspace, the users now had a say in what they wanted.
<Highway_of_Life> they could install their own little widgets of information, and tried harder to make their friendslist only be "friends", this resulted in less mass advertising and self promotion than myspace, cleaner designs that were not overloaded with pictures, flash and video, plus designed using the PHP language made it faster and easier to browse than MySpace
<battye> It should not be a friends list, it should be a "friends" list
<Highway_of_Life> it should really have three lists: "friends list" "acquaintance list" and "stranger (aka future friend) list"
<battye> lol
pokesthelippyfish wrote:Without the microchip, computers would still occupy huge warehouses... and this thread would be mootly non-existant. Put THAT in your Funk & Wagnall's, baby! And, I'll just wait while you all google Funk & Wagnall's.