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thenewgreen · 4097 days ago · link · · parent · post: In 1992 Robert Kaiser of the Washington Posts attended a conference about the future of media and technology
Thanks for the link. I think this summed it up pretty well: 1998: Oh wow--we may have missed the boat on the Internet. 2000: Ha! We were right! Just a fad! Phew! All is well! 2005: Are newspapers a great business, or what?? 2008: Oh shit 2012: Help! We'll do whatever you tell us to do! Just make it stop!! I first started using the Internet in 1995 and honestly, I could see how someone would have thought it was "just a fad" if they were too old to realize how exciting it was. It would be like a manufacturer of board games playing atari and thinking the same thing. -Short sighted.1995: This Internet thing? Just a fad. The CB radio of the '90s.