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Grex Internet Item 142: Beauty of the Net!
Entered by jy420 on Sat Apr 10 00:08:54 UTC 1999:

The more I think about it, it seems as if the the internet will keep
on growing, yes, but will end up in a junk yard somewhere someday...
personally i love the internet.. no arugument there, but the internet
being a network of networks and people sending and recieving information
there isn't much more to the internet now is there?  but information can
be all sorts of stuff and this is what keeps the internet alive and that
is why the internet community is growing by the minute.

Do you really belive that the scientists who built arpanet thought of the
internet ?  I mean did it occur to them that from arpanet something called
the internet would be born?  A vast network of computers that spreads out

all throughout the world and maybe the universe.. who knows.

We could continue building more and more computers to contribute to the
growing users of the net.. we could.. spend all of our money and time
to come out with faster and better computers and processors all for what?
it all comes down to the internet does it not?  and in speaking of the
internet we have the common netizens to the evil comptuer hackers and spies.

They are there to ruin the average netizen's life while others are there
just to explore.. and to have fun.. the internet is great and all, but i
think it has taken away too much time from life.  Scientists indeed are
working on new inventions to make life a better place to live in, but most
of them are working on ways to make new computers  for the internet.

think about the number of computer users who spend there time online
doing nothing!  you can check your email, chat with other users who 
probably aren't people at all, check the news and weather.. stock quotes,
play online games.. yahoo is great for that.. and a whole bunch of 
other stuff.. 

besides that there isn't much you can really say about the internet.
i want to know the real reason why the internet is so great.. i have never
heard a good reason to why this is so.. wow you can send your email faster,
get information quicker, play games for endless hours against users across
the globe, etc.. what more is there?

information warfare has been around before the invention of the first 
computer.  it is all about information, but in truth most of the information
you find online is all bull.  

also what is with all the porn on the net.  yeah its great.. sure it is.
but without all that crap the internet would be so much better.

hello again.. i would like to say by writing this i am not saying in
any way that the internet is useless or dumb.. i love the net. who doesn't
i just want a reason to why the net is so great, besides the obvious!

thank you very much and have a very nice day.

3 responses total.

#1 of 3 by omni on Sat Apr 10 07:58:22 1999:

  Guilty!  I spend at least 2 hours per day just doing "utility" things.
Checking e-mail, writing it, doing Grex. I should have used the time better,
but I have no regrets.

#2 of 3 by kaplan on Sat Apr 10 23:38:37 1999:

The company I work for packages data and sells it to other companies.  It will
be much cheaper and faster for us to deliver that data by Internet.  We've
been delivering some by modem which is especially expensive for internatoinal
customers.  When we have packages that are too big for modem, we send a tape
via FedEx.  Thie Internet will lower our cost of doing business.

#3 of 3 by saw on Mon Jul 5 03:13:52 1999:

        And if it weren't for the Internet, I wouldn't have a job.  I work
doing system administration work at an ISP.  It's an interesting (and
good) experience running a BSDI box on a computer network with millions of
other computers on it.
        The nice thing about the Internet is the ability to reach people.
For example, our school news show is done by BLS Productions (a small
video production group me and some friends are in) and we have our own
webpage for free.  We're going to advertise it all over our news show once
we get it going this next year.  The Internet can also be used to reach
millions of people.  Most businesses are on it now.
        I've been an Internet user for a few years now.  Started probably
about 4 or 5 years ago on VMS shells and then I got my first PPP
connection about 3 years ago.  Grex is one of the best places I've found
to hang out on here.

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