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Subject: death of the internet?
it was supposed to be the "next big thing" and granted it was from 94-2000 but the internet has really grown stale over the past couple of years and there has been a steady DECLINE over the past 3 years in internet subscribers.
it's gotten too commercial (just look at the top of the page) and too expensive, and that turns a lot of people off. It's becoming increasingly difficult to find good songs on the PC, file sharing services are being torn down 1 by 1.
no the internet will never go away, but it's starting to get pushed back into the shadows again, the .com boom is dead as a doornail.
sure, news and message boards like this will remain, but then again they were always here.
it's weird, the internet seems like a fad that's peaked, and now it's declining. the fact that you have to pay to see websites (be it xxx stuff or just articles from the paper) is really going to do them in, people are getting annoyed and priced out.
Subject: Re: death of the internet?
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Subject: Re: death of the internet?
I think that the internet is going through another metamorphosis. It metamorphosed in the mid 90's into a commercial enterprise like television. Now I think it's going to metamorphose into something else.
It's like the theory of evolution. The weaker parts of it will die out completely. The stronger parts of it will grow into something new.
Subject: Re: death of the internet?
I don't think that internet will die. Otherwise, how would people procrastinate on doing what needs to be done? How would people spend hours that they spend on the internet now? There would be a lot of lost people in the world if the internet died. ;)
Cat
Subject: Re: death of the internet?
It's lost its novelty so we don't hear as much about it, perhaps.
Subject: Re: death of the internet?
The internet will not die, it's to far established in the working business, informational, educational, and entertaiment worlds.
What the internet did offer us was a reality check a couple of years ago. E-Commerce was the rage and put a dot.com at the end of any business, no matter how insipid, was an investment and stock market boom.
Living in Seattle there was a series of articles in the local paper about the dot.com bomb. These busniess would start up with tons of start up cash and spend it like they were making huge profits before any revenues were coming in. Their wages were inflated, the furnishings top of the line, offices in the nicest commercial real estate, flex hours, liberal policies blah blah blah....
One of the most stupid dot.com companies that I was happy to see fail was My Lackey.com, Customer was to go online and enter in an order to have some menial chores done, garbage taken away, box's broken down, lawn mowed, etc. Why the heck do you need to go online for this crap?
Not only an insulting title for anyone who provides the service.
From Dictionary.com,
Lackey-
1. A liveried male servant; a footman.
2. A servile follower; a toady.
Subject: Re: death of the internet?
The one reason the Internet will never die?
Porn.
Subject: Re: death of the internet?
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The one reason the Internet will never die?
Porn.
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Perverts + Anonymity = Lots of active pay sites ;D
Subject: Re: death of the internet?
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it was supposed to be the "next big thing" and granted it was from 94-2000 but the internet has really grown stale over the past couple of years and there has been a steady DECLINE over the past 3 years in internet subscribers.End Quote
I think this little thing we call the Internet will continue to grow for many many years.
Quoting:It's becoming increasingly difficult to find good songs on the PC, file sharing services are being torn down 1 by 1.End Quote
perhaps you're just not looking in the right places. There are tons of great and massive music sharing sites. So far, I have never not been able to find a song that I wanted.
And regarding them being shut down 1 by 1, everytime 1 goes down, others start up. Remember when it was just Napster? Napster and Audiogalaxy went down, but 3 or more popped up in their place, and so on and so on...
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Perverts + Anonymity = Lots of active pay sites ;D
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...not to mention a mutli-Billion dollar business.
Subject: Re: death of the internet?
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it's weird, the internet seems like a fad that's peaked, and now it's declining. the fact that you have to pay to see websites (be it xxx stuff or just articles from the paper) is really going to do them in, people are getting annoyed and priced out.
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Which newspapers are charging a fee to access their content? I know there are some that require registration or age/sex data, but I didn't know there were any charging a fee to read articles.
ABC and CNN (I think) are charging if you want to view video on their websites, but you can still watch it for free all day long at Fox.
IMO, the internet is here to stay, and will continue to impact our lives, probably in ways we can't even guess at.
Subject: Re: death of the internet?
Yes, with the advent of the World Wide Web in the late 1990's came a constant supply of readily available internet pornography, marking a pivotal period in the adult entertainment industry. Pictorial magazines such as Penthouse and Playboy, the leaders of their field in the past, are struggling to adapt to the changes brought on by the cyberspace revolution. New technology is forcing the producers of adult entertainment to move with the times, just as the birth of the VCR transported the industry from theaters into the homes of its loyal viewers.
Subject: Re: death of the internet?
Music sites are dead in the water.Like some of them are supposed to be paying a royalty fee.A few years ago,some sites I went to were free to download NOW they may want you to have to pay in the near future.That Sucks! >:(
Howard
Subject: Re: death of the internet?
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Which newspapers are charging a fee to access their content? I know there are some that require registration or age/sex data, but I didn't know there were any charging a fee to read articles.
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I know the New York Times charges $1.50 to $2.50 to read archived material. That is, stuff that is well over a year old...
Obviously it is due to space and storage concerns.
I don't think the Internet is dead, or even dying out for that matter. There is so much you can do with it, that does not require money.
As for costs and commercialism, it's like any new business. Does anyone else remember when home video rentals were new? In addition to a few well-thought-out video rental stores (most of whom still exist today) everyone and their Aunt Matilda was opening up a video rental store, or devoting space within other businesses to video rentals, in a misguided attempt to "keep up".
Almost all of them went out of business within thrree years, most went out sooner.
The dot-com boom/bust is a mirror of what I witnessed with video rentals. Did they go away? No. Did they change with the times? Heck, yes! In addition to VHS tapes, you can now rent DVD's and video games.
I think the internet will develop and grow in much the same way.
Subject: Re: death of the internet?
Quoting: I know the New York Times charges $1.50 to $2.50 to read archived material. That is, stuff that is well over a year old...End Quote
Many smaller city newspapers still allow you to read archived material for free. Even some larger city papers (The Detroit Free Press and Detroit News, for example) have free access for several years.