Stefan BohacekHappy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".
NinjaDebugger@stefan I worked for a company whose CEO said that in the late 90s and instead went hard on satellite. In 2016-2018, they still had a pile of satellite receivers, totally useless, in one of the office cubes as a deliberate monument to hubris.
Tuukka RSatellite what? Internet through satellite connection? Or something else?
@Tuuktuuk custom data pipe via satellite, like satellite tv except for other non internet data.
@NinjaDebugger , so a bit like online banking in the 1980's?
I remember my parents used a DOS program called Telix for directly phoning the bank's server and then using the bank pretty precisely the same way online banking works with browsers these days, except for the UI being basically ASCII art.
So, using satellite to connect to what essentially amounts to diverse intranets? Like a BBS?
@Tuuktuuk Like that but the other direction. They were pushing weather, crop, stock market etc data out to farmers.
It was a one way connection.
Ah, so, a very expensive device that does the same as teletext? Makes sense, obviously :D
YUP. And he bet everything on that instead of the internet.