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I'm watching That 70's Show, the commercials come on, and Netzero is advertising, "Internet Access at a 70's Price." WTF is that? $10,000 for a 1200 baud modem and $30,000 for the 4 Mhz Hewlett-Packard micro-computer and punch card reader?

Date: 2002-09-20 07:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seymour-glass.livejournal.com
yeh i thought that was pretty funny too...i wonder if the speed and service is as good as it was in the '70s...what could you gain access to and what exactly would you be finding out there in internet land??? ha ha...

stupidest commerical ever!!!

Let's see now...

Date: 2002-09-20 08:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarrick.livejournal.com
> what could you gain access to and what exactly would you be finding out there in internet land

A wonderous world full of university and millitary scientists and researchers, not one byte of spam, and the worst you ever had to deal with was the annual wave of newbies posting from their university accounts each September. You'd have e-mail, newsgroups, IRC, and some MUDs and MOOs. If you had a .sig more than 3 lines long people would get on your ass about wasting bandwidth. All for you in glorious in 7-bit ASCII text.

Re: Let's see now...

Date: 2002-09-20 09:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seymour-glass.livejournal.com
yeh who would miss the advertising and spam out there...not to mention the hordes of useless information we are now presented with(like our daily lives ha ha)...

As evidenced by this randomly selected journal:

Date: 2002-09-20 09:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarrick.livejournal.com
Friday, September 20th, 2002
6:10 pm Zhu Ding Wen Bu Dao Zhui Ai De Ren...
I went back to schOol today..hahaz..when he came down..he was with..well..if i'm nOt wrong..Ms April Lee..hahaz..get wad i mean?? Well anywayz..urm..at first when they came down..he was lOoking at our class..den he saw me..i winked at him..hehez..den he smiled..BuaHAAhAha..frOm den on he has been smiling throughout the whOle mOrning assembly...

It goes on and on (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=lostluv1326). Seriously. Just pressed random (http://www.livejournal.com/random.bml) and that's what I got.

Date: 2002-09-23 01:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sylkweb.livejournal.com
Ummm...wasn't Netzero free? I used to use it. (Please dont beat me *EG*)

LOL

Date: 2002-09-23 09:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarrick.livejournal.com
Your right! I forgot about that. That'd be why they called themselves NetZero in the first place. Another "new economy" business model crumbles under the unfortunate realization that you can't run a business for long if you don't make any money.

Re: LOL

Date: 2002-09-23 12:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sylkweb.livejournal.com
hahaha. I didn't realize that they were actually charging! They could have at least changed the name to Nettwentybucks or something. How lame.

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