[antocv]

The masses.

We lost because of the great masses, the eternal october but on a much major scale. The same people that still watch TV and who become numb from their everyday medium to low-wage work, all those who are fighting against each other to climb the ladder just a tiny amount up.

See the original internet users were scientists, officers, business people, those early adopters who have the resources and curiosity to use and shape it it.

Todays internet user is any modern slave whos interests dont stretch out further than facebook and easy entertainment. Most people dont even have a concept of what the internet is. They just kind of randomly click buttons and call their laptops "plaything".

Ive seen people pay for 4G but their modem only by default runs on 3G. Meh.

[junto]

That reminds me of this awesome picture: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Pyramid_o...

[tomrod]

Those unwashed masses are what make modern tech possible. Should we go back to BBS days?

[egypturnash]

> Todays internet user is any modern slave whos interests dont stretch out further than facebook and easy entertainment.

Did you ever hang out in a computer lab full of people busily attaining a PhD in muds? There were a hell of a lot of people who used the net as a toy, even back in the text-only days.

[DougBTX]

But aren't we too the masses? It was before my time, but wasn't it the Eternal September?

[crusso]

How sadly and extraordinarily elitist.