NBC Fires Employee for Posting 'What Is the Internet' Clip

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[wally_bert]

I guess videotape hadn’t happened on Today yet. The film/taping terminology misues drives me crazy.

[The Comedian]

What an awesome clip. Gates was trying to go all "Scanners" on the fellow who made that quip.

He probably wanted to kill this guy too.

Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.

[Erasmus]

Thye keep it in an iridium jar in a temperature and humidity controlled cabinet in a bomb-proof cellar under the Swiss National Institute of Metrics and Horology.

One thoroughly vetted visitor per month is allowed into the laboratory, under close supervision, to test their portable secondary standards against it, and take those standards back to their home country for further use in calibrating instruments there.

[jessduntno]

Heh heh heh ... don’t you have one of those?

[Oldpuppymax]

“...saying the person had a history of distributing material without permission.”

TRANSLATION: The guy often put actual facts in front of the public...you know, the stuff that embarrasses leftists!!

[righttackle44]

. . .”that massive computer network, the one that’s becoming really big now” showed Katie being treated like cow manure in Cairo.

[NailInACoffin]

This really ticks me off. That clip was hilarious, and is actually an interesting piece of history. I can’t believe they fired a guy over that. Don’t they do funny little clips and stuff like that on the Today show anyway?

[Tzfat]

Back in ‘94 nobody knew how the Internet would affect our lives.

Anyone using CompuServe did. We regularly used the Internet. 1994 was not that early in the technology.

[dayglored]

> “who could possibly need more than 640k” by Bill Gates. ... There's still a lot of debate about whether Gates actually said that, ...

Nah, no debate. He never said it. Gates and Microsoft said a lot of silly things over the years, but not that one. In fact Gates railed against IBM for limiting the available RAM to only 640KB. He wanted the entire 1MB native address space of the 8086 available.

I'm no fan of Gates, but this particular criticism is a canard.

As to whether anyone in IBM -did- say it in those or similar words, I don't recall. It could be something overheard in a meeting, or even a complete fabrication.

[Swordmaker]

I'm no fan of Gates, but this particular criticism is a canard.

As to whether anyone in IBM -did- say it in those or similar words, I don't recall. It could be something overheard in a meeting, or even a complete fabrication.

As I recall, it was an Intel mucky muck who made the statement in a debate discussing the relative merits of the architecture of the Intel chips compared to the larger addressable space in the 68000 family being adopted by the Mac, Amiga, and Atari.

[dayglored]

> As I recall, it was an Intel mucky muck who made the statement in a debate discussing the relative merits of the architecture of the Intel chips compared to the larger addressable space in the 68000 family being adopted by the Mac, Amiga, and Atari.

Ah, that would make sense.

Think how different the computing landscape would be, if only Motorola had had the 68000 family -- including the necessary peripheral chips -- ready to go when IBM was designing the IBM-PC. It's widely believed that IBM had wanted to go with the 68K, because they knew the value of large address space, but the 8-bit version (68008) wasn't ready yet, and only Intel had a complete set of peripheral chips ready to roll.

*sigh*

[Dr. Wu]

lol everyone knows that @ is the “snail” key!

It used to mean “each”, and was used on order forms and ledgers, now we call it “at” but I know it’s really the sign of the snail.

And then there is the octothorpe.