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

[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. :)