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!

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[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.