A missive from the Dark Ages of 1995

Clifford Stoll wrote about the Internet in 1995. It’s amusing. He completely disses the whole idea.

Some parts of his rant are correct — he says no CD-ROM will replace a good teacher, which is true. There are aspects of the internet that were oversold, often imposing a computer on human skills inappropriately. But as it’s turned out in the last 20 years, there are some things the computer is really good at, and he missed those.

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