Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <20070408181642119+1200@News.Individual.NET>,
Roger Johnstone  <roger@roger.geek.nz.removethisbit> wrote:


> The Hayes Smartmodem (1981) is covered. I understand why the other 
> technologies you mentioned weren't though. "We salute those amazing 
> products that changed technology--and our lives--forever." Mosaic had 
> next to no direct impact on the general public, but Netscape's Navigator 
> was for many their first experience of the Internet.

Another exaggreation....  does the guy who wrote that have the
faintest idea of what "forever" actually means?  Does he really
believe that when the Sun has gone nova and mankind has been extinct
for millions of years, that it then really matters whether Mosaic or
Netscape "changed our lives" in our brief moment of time?

And even before mankind becomes extinct, does he really believe that
nothing will happen which will make Netscape appear quite
insignificant?  Sort of how we today consider Morse Code quite
insignificant, even though it changed the lives of people back in the
days of "The Victorian Internet" (i.e. the worldwide telegraph
network, which btw was the first worldwide network ever created by
mankind - it even predated radio) some 150 years ago....

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