Comments on: Little Bits of Webness http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/25/webness/ Alan Levine's blog space for barking about instructional technology Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:45:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Steven Hornik http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/25/webness/#comment-30129 Steven Hornik Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:20:03 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/25/webness/#comment-30129 I remember when my wife became a United States Citizen just about 10 years ago. After the standard speeches were over, the judge who oversaw the courtroom of newly minted citizens rather then giving a speech imploring them to vote or other citizeny type things. , implored each and everyone of them to learn about the Internet and the WWW - sage advice indeed. I remember when my wife became a United States Citizen just about 10 years ago. After the standard speeches were over, the judge who oversaw the courtroom of newly minted citizens rather then giving a speech imploring them to vote or other citizeny type things. , implored each and everyone of them to learn about the Internet and the WWW - sage advice indeed.

]]> By: Dave Ferguson http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/25/webness/#comment-30128 Dave Ferguson Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:02:43 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/25/webness/#comment-30128 Whippersnappers... I remember chatting online at GEnie, using a TeleVideo 950 and an acoustic coupler modem. (I think the forum host was Ada Lovelace.) One thing all of this underscores is the sheer unexpectedness of it all. But Stewart Brand said it years ago in <i>The Media Lab</i>: We have only another decade or so of carrying on about computers as the big new bad/good thing. They're about to disappear from view the way motors did. Engines were cause for wonder and speculation when they ran ships and railroads. Nobody called the automobile or truck a personal railroad, but that's what it was, and people still were impressed. Then motors got smaller and disappeared into lawn mowers, refrigerators, toothbrushes, wristwatches, and nobody...speculates now about what motors will become or worries much about what they are doing to human dignity or economic inequality. Whippersnappers…

I remember chatting online at GEnie, using a TeleVideo 950 and an acoustic coupler modem. (I think the forum host was Ada Lovelace.)

One thing all of this underscores is the sheer unexpectedness of it all. But Stewart Brand said it years ago in The Media Lab:

We have only another decade or so of carrying on about computers as the big new bad/good thing. They’re about to disappear from view the way motors did. Engines were cause for wonder and speculation when they ran ships and railroads. Nobody called the automobile or truck a personal railroad, but that’s what it was, and people still were impressed. Then motors got smaller and disappeared into lawn mowers, refrigerators, toothbrushes, wristwatches, and nobody…speculates now about what motors will become or worries much about what they are doing to human dignity or economic inequality.

]]> By: Rob Wall http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/25/webness/#comment-30071 Rob Wall Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:45:20 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/25/webness/#comment-30071 Luxury. We used to dream of writing HTML font tags by hand. *We* used to write our web pages in full binary and publish them on web servers we'd written in assembler language. Not much, I know, but we were happy. Luxury. We used to dream of writing HTML font tags by hand. *We* used to write our web pages in full binary and publish them on web servers we’d written in assembler language. Not much, I know, but we were happy.

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