Re: Searching for depressing moments of Internet history.....

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood at eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

Simon Spero wrote:
>
> I believe Kapor's law was first stated at the January '92 Usenix (The
> first use for any new communications technology is sex).

any SUCCESSFUL communications technology, surely?

Think I've just discovered why 8-track failed, and gotten new insight
into that whole VHS vs Betamax thing.

As for getting funding to study this - doesn't anyone remember Marty
Rimm?
http://www.eff.org/Publications/Declan_McCullagh/www/rimm/

(and Time Magazine showing a lack of editorial standards long before
their Apple iMac advertorials.)

L.

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