I'm so ronery

[davidn]

I should know better than to comment on Youtube videos, really. It raises the danger that people on it might reply to you. This video is a very interesting look at what people in the 1960s thought the home of the future might be like, and manages to predict Internet shopping/banking and tablet PCs, while getting the details of how they work wrong because of having no concept of how data might be able to be stored in the future. I said so:

DavidXNewton: It's amazing how accurate this is in what we can do with the Internet, but not in how it was done because they couldn't think beyond the technology of the time - the whole business with the cameras and microfiche-style viewers, because there was just no concept that images, bank statements and so on could somehow be stored and sent electronically.

dogchinafood1: i just see words but what the hell are u talking about i read your comment twice and still have no clue as to what your saying

I suppose I'm most incensed by the implication that this is somehow my own problem - I think that two attempts at the paragraph just weren't anywhere near enough for him. Never mind, I suppose you could just blame the education system.

It makes me appreciate all the more that despite the reaches of the Internet growing steadily worse as more people get on to it, in some safe havens, I still know people (some who I've known for years and have become geographically separated from, some who I would never have known without it) who are not interchangeable brainless meme-spewing automata. If you're reading this and have understood the words, this applies to you - thank you for not being an idiot. You make the Internet a better place.

Comments

[rakarr.livejournal.com]

I admit that I found the wording of your comment to be a little confusing until I had read the whole thing twice, but as you say, apparently that's too much effort for this guy. You know, I thought it was more common for people to either try to hide their ignorance or ask for clarification, rather than proudly (and aggressively) draw attention to it. Sadly, that's not common in most places on the Internet, and especially not YouTube.

I guess that's the downside of worldwide connectivity. All the idiots can get together and bludgeon themselves, en-masse, into our computers.

[lupineangel.livejournal.com]

The internet - because none of us are as stupid as all of us. :P

D.F.