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Active Presidential Website (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Oct 2012 OP
Interesting quote from Bill Gates from '96 that was prophetic looking at these sites... Drunken Irishman Oct 2012 #1
It took forever for any graphics to load back then Ichingcarpenter Oct 2012 #2
Right after Gates had pronounced the Internet as unimportant. longship Oct 2012 #3
 

Drunken Irishman

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1. Interesting quote from Bill Gates from '96 that was prophetic looking at these sites...
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 04:32 AM
Oct 2012

"There's no doubt we'll look back at Web sites today and basically say ... that they were quite primitive. They don't customize what they present to the viewers' interests. They don't remember: Have you been there before? What have you seen before? And that's got to change." -- Bill Gates, MSNBC, July 15, 1996

Ichingcarpenter

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2. It took forever for any graphics to load back then
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 05:00 AM
Oct 2012

because of limited dial up 26k shit we had.
Now, I'm watching Babylon 5 episodes while scanning news and DU. Just the little computer shown on the Dole site was a strain on our computer and internet.

Anyway I thought it was interesting until we have the

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