[nathanfig]

If you follow the Gartner model, there is usually a surge of high expectations right before a "trough of disillusionment" - but eventually the real applications do emerge. Humans are just impatient.

[adventured]

That whole Internet thing is never going to work out.

What's the killer app? The Web? CompuServe? AOL chat? ICQ? Blue's News? WebChat Broadcasting? Real Audio? Broadcast.com? GeoCities? It's all ridiculous.

I mean, have you tried to search for anything on AltaVista, Excite or Lycos?!? They hardly work, all you get is page after page of garbage results!

And don't even get me started with eBay or CDNow. Nobody is going to shop online.