I just finished reading the article about technologies that became obsolete, and I was surprised. I have heard of most of these devices, but never knew that they held their own against newer technologies. Huh. It makes you feel sorry for the inventors of this technology, who were blasted by the crummier competition.
I think that it is totally ridiculous that a company would think to assign phone numbers and area codes to replace URLs. Seeing for many the web is a research tool, giving sites phone numbers is like listing encyclopedia entries by an arbitrary numerical system.
Dave barry has long been a very funny person (In fact, I believe he must have been born that way), but I have never seen any of his work online. Anyway, the article was great, and presented some interesting thoughts.
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I just finished reading the article about technologies that became obsolete, and I was surprised. I have heard of most of these devices, but never knew that they held their own against newer technologies. Huh. It makes you feel sorry for the inventors of this technology, who were blasted by the crummier competition.
I think that it is totally ridiculous that a company would think to assign phone numbers and area codes to replace URLs. Seeing for many the web is a research tool, giving sites phone numbers is like listing encyclopedia entries by an arbitrary numerical system.
Dave barry has long been a very funny person (In fact, I believe he must have been born that way), but I have never seen any of his work online. Anyway, the article was great, and presented some interesting thoughts.