Baloney. Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

Why the Web Won’t Be Nirvana, by Clifford Stoll. 1995-02-26

This is some golden 1995 writing.  The Dot Com bubble was just starting to inflate, Amazon was still a dumb idea, and nobody had a laptop.

This seems like something out of the Onion! Look at that dude’s hair!  Look at his state of the art Windows 95 desktop with TWO crt monitors!

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