Intervebs? What are Intervebs?

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Eric Francis

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10 Responses to Intervebs? What are Intervebs?

  1. Eric Francis Eric Francis says:
    February 1, 2011 at 11:42 am

    let’s line up PW bloggers for the group clueless shot

  2. Fe Bongolan says:
    February 1, 2011 at 8:18 am

    The group clueless look is especially adorable.

  3. Eric Francis Eric Francis says:
    January 31, 2011 at 10:29 pm

    Admittedly I learned about the Internet in October of 1994 when I put an email address into an ad I wrote for a client that appeared in the New York Times. Well, I guess if I suggested that they include an email address (probono@delphi.com), I must have known what it was before that. So in ’94 it was a little bit below the surface except — I was using MCI Mail as a journalist in the 1980s, as were all portable journalists (using MCI Mail or similar services) to file our copy from remote events. So how network journalists don’t know…what the little @ means…is pretty goofy.

    with some research I’ve dug out that ad…does it look like Planet Waves?

    http://www.judgewatch.org/../../correspondence-nys/1997/6-2-97-exI-1.pdf

  4. awordedgewise awordedgewise says:
    January 31, 2011 at 10:29 pm

    only A-H. hahahaha!!!

    And although EBs may only be in thrift shops now, I think some tvnewshows still use the 3-monkey setup.

  5. Shanna Philipson says:
    January 31, 2011 at 9:41 pm

    Oh, it’s just a standard set of Encyclopedia Britannica. But likely just A-H.

    Love the screen shot. It has a three monkeys, hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil intentional ignorance about it.

    Doubt the target audience for the Today show in 1994 was well informed. Is the target audience in 2011 any better informed?

    At least now most television journalists look openly clueless to me. Either I or they have changed.

  6. Eric Francis Eric Francis says:
    January 31, 2011 at 9:30 pm

    I saw that — they seem so erudite! Scholarly, too…

  7. awordedgewise awordedgewise says:
    January 31, 2011 at 9:03 pm

    PS The books on the set/shelf behind them make it even funnier.

  8. awordedgewise awordedgewise says:
    January 31, 2011 at 8:58 pm

    lol! True enough. Lucky me/us to have you!

  9. Eric Francis Eric Francis says:
    January 31, 2011 at 8:43 pm

    By 1994, this is just ridiculous.

    But we have a little evidence how little you know to be a “journalist.”

  10. awordedgewise awordedgewise says:
    January 31, 2011 at 8:11 pm

    Katie C. seems to be choking back urges to respond to the others’ lack of knowledge.

    I find it hard to believe that there was this level of ignorance in 1994??? wow. Interconnectedness via computer had been a vital part of work/jobs for me for quite some time at that point. Maybe it had to do with where and for whom I worked – cause I don’t remember any particular division between not having internet and having it.

    But what a difference a day makes, eh? Or 15 years anyway.

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