8 Can't Miss Predictions... for 1998

alphadogg-nw writes "Tired of being wrong too often, a Network World pundit applies 20-20 hindsight to this list of prognostications for 1998, which if he's right will turn out to be quite a year. Among the forecasts: The U.S. Department of Justice will go medieval on Microsoft, Compaq will buy what's left of DEC, AOL likewise Netscape, Apple will introduce something said to look like an Easter egg ... and then there's the deafening buzz about this new search engine called Google."

Comments

Wow! That was easy.

[morgan_greywolf]

My predictions for 1988:

10. MS-DOS 4.0 will ship, finally, by mid-year. It will be so buggy and crash so much that Microsoft will be forced to release an update, MS-DOS 4.01, by year's end.
9. Liquid crystal will be discovered by Frederick Reintzer.
8. Someone will introduce a simple network management protocol, probably called SNMP. Nobody will care.
7. An alternative bus to IBM's Micro Channel Architecture will be introduced. Expect it to be called something like EISA -- Extended Industry Standard Architecture.
6. An Internet Relay Chat system called IRC will be developed.
5. A company called Creative Labs will introduce a sound card called the SoundBlaster, which will establish defacto standards for years to come.
4. People obsessed with clocks will introduce the Network Time Protocol, which will allow computers to sync their clocks over the Internet.
3. The first T-1 backbone will be added to ARPANET.
2. Motorola will release a new processor, the 88000. No one will care.
1. Apple will sue Microsoft over the trash can icon.

Re:Bad headline

[sm62704]

My predictions for 2008, all will happen (balls of crystal, I tell ya)

• the earth will not be hit by an extinction-causing assteroid
  
• Someone will invent something. The invention may actually be useful
  
• Somebody will launch something or someone into outer space.
  
• Someone will post "FIRST POST! with the comment "frosty piss" and be modded "offtopic"
  
• Someone will say something about the USSR, Natalie Portmen, a Beowolf cluster, or CowboyNeal and be modded "+5 funny"
  
• I will continue to write slashdot journals about prostitutes
  
• I will get at least one haircut this year. Maybe this afternoon.
  
• CmdrTaco won't command her "taco"
  
• Google [whatever] will remain in beta
  
• Microsoft will keep pissing everyone off
  
• 2008 will not see Linux overtake Windows
  
• I'll be turned down and stood up
  
• CowboyNeal won't get laid

-mcgrew

Re:Digg?

[dbolger]

I believe he was trying to keep his post on-topic.

Clearly he is referring to the Slashdot of 1998 ;)