Internet Idiots: Internet Devolution
In the early 90's the Internet "emerged" in colleges and universities. Slowly each campus came online and soon thereafter its students. Local relays, telnet and connections too strange to name finally started to beat out the bulliten board. The early internet was populated primarily by bulliten board kacks and egg-heads. The internet was over a decade made away from being made "idiot proof." Just being there was a technical feat. Anybody that was there could basicaly solve their on problems so were a good source for solutions and theories.
Web pages evolved and were streamlined. Bandwidth was king. At those connections you couldn't do things like today. Fast pages high-lighting the information was the goal. It was a much different mindset than the broadband mind of today. Todays internet was a dream or sci fi tech. You had to navigate many things to be online. Operating systems, modems, the phone lines themselves everything was a seperate system tunable and individual.
The evolution of operating systems to incorporate online functions and broadband on the horizon developed at the same time. In a day where windows could fit in a few flopy discs adding a couple megabyte internet naviator doubled the size of the operating systems. Essentially there were two seperate entities. An OS (operating system) and MOASIC based internet navigating program running together yet not overlapping in any way.
Today you have gigabyte OS that have everything self contained. Everything is controlled by the OS. Nothing stands alone. If there is a problem with one it is a problem with all. Individual control has been lost. The knowledge base required to be online was gone. With the loss of control and the loss of the technical proficiency the internet changed. Now I hear legitamate cries if "internet idiots." Society has evolved with the OS and the goal of everybody being online has evolved the OS. Intelligence and a certain independant problem solving spirit has completely been overwhealmed by the masses of fools.
The history of the internet is interesting. The old timers are now laughing at the cell phone internet. Low bandwidth page building is a lost art! Us old farts still work that way and the kids are having to learn a whole new way to think. The advent of texting and to a lesser degree e-mail brought a new pop-culture set of abbreviations and txt jargon has replaced the early tech speak based online language. Once great innovators and ground breakers now just old men and their days of glory forgotten by the hi-speed junkies socializing the internet completely rushing by the lone pioneer.
Web pages evolved and were streamlined. Bandwidth was king. At those connections you couldn't do things like today. Fast pages high-lighting the information was the goal. It was a much different mindset than the broadband mind of today. Todays internet was a dream or sci fi tech. You had to navigate many things to be online. Operating systems, modems, the phone lines themselves everything was a seperate system tunable and individual.
The evolution of operating systems to incorporate online functions and broadband on the horizon developed at the same time. In a day where windows could fit in a few flopy discs adding a couple megabyte internet naviator doubled the size of the operating systems. Essentially there were two seperate entities. An OS (operating system) and MOASIC based internet navigating program running together yet not overlapping in any way.
Today you have gigabyte OS that have everything self contained. Everything is controlled by the OS. Nothing stands alone. If there is a problem with one it is a problem with all. Individual control has been lost. The knowledge base required to be online was gone. With the loss of control and the loss of the technical proficiency the internet changed. Now I hear legitamate cries if "internet idiots." Society has evolved with the OS and the goal of everybody being online has evolved the OS. Intelligence and a certain independant problem solving spirit has completely been overwhealmed by the masses of fools.
The history of the internet is interesting. The old timers are now laughing at the cell phone internet. Low bandwidth page building is a lost art! Us old farts still work that way and the kids are having to learn a whole new way to think. The advent of texting and to a lesser degree e-mail brought a new pop-culture set of abbreviations and txt jargon has replaced the early tech speak based online language. Once great innovators and ground breakers now just old men and their days of glory forgotten by the hi-speed junkies socializing the internet completely rushing by the lone pioneer.
posted by Rev. Robert S. Herring www.robertsherring.net at 2:25 PM
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