Internet more the same than ever

[scuzzman]

This is quite interesting:

  After a decade of writing about the digital world in this, North Dakota's oldest continuing newspaper column about the Internet, I have come to one seemingly contradictory conclusion: The Internet remains the same, but always in a different way.

Consider:

-- The trial of a celebrity in California fuels an online feeding frenzy as people turn to the Internet for images and information.

-- An upstart, easy-to-use Web browser challenges the market dominance of an older, rival browser.

-- The Internet's hottest search engine leaves its competitors in the dust as it unveils one new search application after another.

"Ah," a dedicated Net watcher might say. "You're talking about the Michael Jackson trial, the Firefox and Explorer browsers and the Google search engine."

No so.

This was the Internet, circa 1995.:

-- The celebrity trial was O.J. Simpson's.

-- The upstart browser was Internet Explorer taking on market leader Netscape Navigator.

-- The innovative search engine was Yahoo.

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