Massive advertising fail.

[gridlore]

From an AT&T radio spot I hear at least 20 times a day:

"The internet was originally called the World Wide Web."

Excuse me, I have to do some Gopher searches of FTP sites for a way to express just how utterly wrong this is on every level. Shouldn't take long, I have a 56.6K modem!

Comments

[guruwench.livejournal.com]

Gnar... idjits! I remember 1200bps modems (which we called 1200 baud at the time) and thinking 2400 was zippy. And I was a latecomer to the game, seeing as how I know folks who used the acoustic coupler style upon which you placed your telephone handset....

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

*raises hand*

Yeah, I had one of those and I remember thinking how FAST 1200 was compared to the 110/300 choices I usually had!

[seawasp]

Damn skippy! 300 baud was blazingly fast when you started at 110!

I sent my first email in 1976, before people were using PCs at all, let alone getting online. :)

[capplor.livejournal.com]

I remember LAN & WAN systems & being amazed that I could electronically "talk" to someone at another college. I remember seeing my first desktop machine & wondering how the guy who had it managed to hook up to the university LAN account from his dorm room.

I also remember using ARPA-net from the DEW-line Base in Northern Alaska to send a message to Moffat field &, from there, have someone phone my mother, so that I could wish her a happy birthday in almost real time.

All of that was in the 70's.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

I remember the beginning of the WWW, back in my college years... when it was just black text and blue links, with the occasional lonely image, floating in a sea of grey.