Bill Gates explaining the Internet to David Letterman in 1995.
Bill Gates explaining the Internet to David Letterman in 1995. from OldSchoolCool
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Bill Gates explaining the Internet to David Letterman in 1995.
Bill Gates explaining the Internet to David Letterman in 1995. from OldSchoolCool
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Back in the day, there were 2 camps, This Is Gonna Be Massive and Yeah Nah
I’m not sure why Letterman was as big as he was. He was kinda an asshole and maybe that was his appeal. He treated the celebrities not as celebrities? I think Bill could have said, you can listen to a baseball game happening in NY, in Germany or Japan live. That would have been better example for layman to understand.
Bill should have explained that you can listen to the baseball game anywhere in the world via internet vs. only in a local area via radio.
People who grew up after the internet definitely don’t appreciate the value of having the sum of human knowledge available to you at any time you chose, just like most people before the internet couldn’t picture such a world and its possibilities.
This right here is why we try new things. It is not readily apparent WHY something might be better or worse. We don’t know because we are incapable of knowing without trying. Lettermen is correct when he says that its easy to shit on new things, being stuck in ones ways is super easy. What’s difficult is moving out of your comfort zone and trying to make something new work well; an earnest try to do somehting new.
I work in design and architecture and I dont ever shit on anyones new “crazy” ideas. For reasons just like this.
in those days it all seemed funny and cool
Potato farms
Ahhhh, boomers! They so funny
It’s almost unbelievable how far the internet has come. Letterman has a good point for 1995 … there wasn’t a whole lot out there for the common man. Very niche. Lots of “nerdy” things for the techy guys.
I remember trying to search for info on certain cars and there just wasn’t enough information. Or if there was, it was very difficult to source.
Now? Google knows what I’m about to search for. It’s crazy.
Not to mention the speed and bandwidth increase. No one in 1995 would have believed it would be possible to stream movies day and night over a telephone wire. Probably not even Gates.
Bill Gates: about as funny as Lung Cancer
Bill Gates stated at Comdex trade event in 1994 “I see little commercial potential for the internet for the next 10 years,”
He forgot to mention that your boss can ping you “I need you to come to work right now” at 2 am wherever you are.
Oh wait, does pagers ring a bell? Lol
“Do you think it could ever be used to look at pictures of naked people Bill?”
“Oh no I can’t imagine anything like that will ever be on the internet.”
His wife divorced him in part due to his relationship with Epstein
“Troubled loner chat room.”
Dave seems to know the internet better than Bill.
The internet is tubes!
And little did he know, with the “Troubled Loner Chatroom” David Letterman was describing 4chan.
Shows Letterman a car
“Do horses ring a bell?”
Welcome to the Internet,
have a look around.
Younger peeps will never be able to comprehend how lost we were and what a genius bill gates was
The internet only makes sense if you presume mass adoption. It doesn’t make sense if you consider just intranet. Or even intranet that’s connected maybe to other buildings, facilities, and departments, but still not open to outsiders. If you had describe what the internet would be today, people might think you were mentally ill.
But given how mental illness and internet usage go hand-in-hand, they would exactly be wrong.
Cracks me up when people under 30 think older generations know nothing about tech. Do they really not know who invented it? I had to use DOS for crying out loud!