All of this talk about “Web 2.0″ got me thinking about when I started using the World Wide Web in 1995.
Things back then were more fun than they are today.
We had animated gifs with no apparent purpose, flaming e-mail icons, and having your own space on the web was more difficult than signing onto MySpace and linking to videos on YouTube.
You could log-on to AOL and cause trouble in a chatroom to the point that your parents’ account was notified. You could argue with your friends about whether to buy a V90 or a K2 modem. You got to listen to the cool noises of making a dialup connection.
While things now are possibly more interesting, the mid-90s on the WWW were much more fun. I guess that is not as much a factor of the technology, but rather, no longer being 15 years old.
January 24, 2007 in: Commentary - No Comments
Here is my thinking on the new iPhone:
Service will cost around $100 a month (probably too conservative) to take full advantages of the iPhone’s
capabilities (i.e. unlimited data and ~500 minutes of calling per month)
So, for two years of iPhone (with the 8GB model and the required two
year contract for the lowest price) you are looking at $600 for the
phone + (24 months x $100 per month) = a grand total of $3,000 (or
$4.17 per day of operation).
I use my phone around 10 minutes per day (on average), so for me that
would be an operational cost of almost 42 cents per minute (but that
is just using the device as a phone).
Personally, I would like to see how the phone handles piracy and
pornography – we all know that is what really determines the adoption
of a new technology.
January 10, 2007 in: Commentary, Technology - No Comments
