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Strategies & Market Trends : Anthony @ Equity Investigations, Dear Anthony,
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To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (65321)12/31/2000 3:40:41 PM
From: Pink Minion  Read Replies (3) of 122087
 
Exactly mny point it will be viewed as we view simple things now like the phone ...
The internet isnt even close at being a HUGE Invention, I think the invention of Electricity dwarfs it to a grain of sand..

Well, some say the phone was a huge invention. IMO, anything that greatly enhances productivity and the living standard of humans is a big invention. To say the Internet is a non event is about as silly as some of the things Cheeky has said. Tony, you have never worked in the pointy-hair, Dilbert world. You don't know how inefficient things are/were. The fax machine was a greater invention than the telephone. It literally ran corporate communications in the 80's.

It wasnt such a huge leap in thinking connectiong people by phonelines to their computers

Maybe that's the problem you have. The Internet is the linking of computers through a highspeed backbone with a standard protocol. Microsoft had there own protocol as did others. Then you could get into the invention of the router and Cisco. The hard part is getting everybody to do the same thing.

I personally put the Internet (and the open software movement) on the same level as the printing press, mainly because of the knowledge it spreads around the world. Just think of the knowledge this thread has spread? More than any book you could have written.

Now, if you want to say this New Economy is a bunch of crap and it's not "different" this time, and stocks will eventually trade at there historical levels - I'll go with that.
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