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....

[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.