03 Apr 2013

Blast From The Past: The Internet

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I can be a little bit of a geek sometimes. I won’t even deny it because close friends and family of mine can attest to this. After all, it’s the reason why I became a blogger – so I could write about things that interest me and not so much others in conversation. I came across this video this morning from 1995 explaining the internet and was immediately drawn in. Even though it wasn’t THAT long ago, the way they are describing it seems crazy to me. You don’t even need to watch the whole video (unless you want to) – I only got through two minutes and that was enough to make me stop and write this post. Well okay, this line also:

“Electronic mail is what I do most,” says The New York Times’ John Markoff in the intro of this amazing time capsule of a video. “Here, you see an email I got from Steve Jobs.”

Check out the rest of the article here.