• AidsKitty@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I can remember when Bill Gates would travel around and pitch how influential and transformative the internet could be and people would literally laugh in his face.

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      2 months ago

      You must be from one of those alternate timelines. I remember people laughing at Gates because his book on influential and transformative technologies (The Road Ahead) didn’t mention the Internet once.

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        2 months ago

        I remember when Gates went on David Letterman to announce a baseball game was going to be broadcast over the internet for the first time and Letterman mocked him for several minutes. In the beginning the internet was straight garbage.