What was I doing on #420 ... 1994? *Oh, just
predicting[1]#Netflix *_years before they were even FOUNDED_ -
(see the VCR comment and analogize) and talking about the
[2]#magic *of being online. *The "liveness" of the 'net. *By
then it should've been old news to me - I'd already been online
for six years as much as I could get away with... and now, 21
years later after this 4/20 post - *the magic is here for me..
the magic of connecting with people whose hands I will never
shake yet who I feel as if I know better than I know my next
door neighbor and I probably do, and they (or you rather) know
me. ---- 4/20/1994 --- I agree with the concept of hanging out
in a place, virtual as it may be. Certainly, it's more efficient
to download everything in one burst, and then scan through at
your leisure. But that would be like Cable companies downloading
all of the programs in a given day to your VCR tapes, and then
allowing you to sort through and get what you wanted there. Sure
- it's more efficient, but it's a lot less fun. *It would turn
BBSing into a CHORE rather than... "cool- I'm talking to another
computer right now!". Offline messaging is a great idea. *And
for those that want to do everything at once then do it locally
at their leasure, there are facilities for that purpose. *But
overall... simply having a dumb terminal hooked up to a smarter
computer is the best feeling on earth. [via
alt.bbs.offline-reader]
References
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https://plus.google.com/s/%23Netflix
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https://plus.google.com/s/%23magic
