[Edu-sig] Hello, I'm Tim...

[Arthur]

Nicola -

> 
> > """
> > Please show this video to dad
> > http://www.ebaumsworld.com/theinternet.html
> > """
> >
> > My son thought the video hysterical.  I thought it interesting.  I
> wonder
> > what you think of it.
> >
> > You may need Windows to view it. I hope you can scratch up a partition
> > somewhere where you might be running that particular operating system
> ;).
> 
> Fortunately there's no need to do that. :-) Just download the video at the
> direct link:
> 
> http://media.ebaumsworld.com/theinternet.wmv
> 
> (it's 9 MBytes), then play it with whatever understands wmv files on your
> choice of platform.
> 
> As for the movie itself, I don't know what's "hysterical" about it, apart
> maybe from the last remark. :-) I found it pretty accurate, once one
> acknowledges the fact that it's obviously been made a few years ago.
> 

I'm not sure what's "hysterical" about it either.  Partly why I wanted Tim's
reaction.  

Maybe it looks and sounds prehistoric - rather than simply historic, as it
does to those of us a bit older.

And maybe my son is remembering when I discovered the Internet - on a 1200
baud modem, seeing blue screens.  I must say that in a  half hour I knew I
was looking at the beginnings of something that was going to fundamentally
change the world.  And told him and my wife this. Which set me off on The
Jag. 

The amazing thing, for somehow who happens to like to think of himself as a
business person, is that I never made a nickel off of any of this.  

What I do have are souvenirs. I am a proud owner of Linux Journal #1, for
example. From 1994.  And a RedHat business card - when they were a few folks
working out of Conneticut, I think it was.  I'm sure we all have these kinds
of stories.

Art