From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 05:59:13 -0500 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Investigating the Plan 9 Operating System - OSNews.com In-Reply-To: <20060728094804.GT1836@XTL.antioffline.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 91bd886c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 not to mention newspapers, magazines &c. there are advantages to the net today that have nothing to do with the fact that they are new. - erik On Fri Jul 28 04:48:45 CDT 2006, harriha@mail.student.oulu.fi wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:29:04PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > i don't think the evolution of the net (or computers for that matter) > > is a story of the good old days and constant regression or the > > converse. i think it's a story of (slightly? how pessamistic are > > you?) more advances than regressions. > > Depends also on how much you value the new things, I guess. It was > probably the masses that drew all kinds of companies along and now you > can contact many places, research products, get manuals and support etc. > Well.. sometimes you might.