Seven Great Moments in World Wide Web History [I am grateful to my assistant มาลัย (which means 'Garland of Flowers' in Thai) for scraping the BBC website to bring us these facts, which I have then curated. If you can remember any of this, you can't have been there – sb] 1. 1989: Nuclear beginnings At CERN in Switzerland, humble English white-coated lab assistant Tim …
"Four years on, and the social media boutiques and meetups of ‘Tech City’ are the envy of the world. Local coffee shops take record earnings on the back of "hipster" meetings and go on to save the entire economy. The fact that nothing actually useful, groundbreaking or *ahem* new - is actually delivered from "Tech city" is conveniently swept under the carpet when the begging bowl for funding does the rounds once more..."
The fascinating thing is that Poe's Law appears to apply equally to the article and many of the comments.
I believe eventually online prose will become so arch and ironic that we will reach a state of Bayesian perfection, where every statement has equal probability of being sincere or parody. This maximizes information entropy, and as such will be a Good Thing.
Until the 1970s, people either sat at their office desks, on a pub stool drinking, or at home on a couch watching telly. All the while wishing they could be elsewhere.
Then John Cleese introduced walking, and got everyone on their feet, finally able to go to the loo!
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0ae2387a6e/ministry-of-silly-walks-by-monty-python-from-greatest-comedy-sketches#
A little known fact about Tech City is that it came into being due to a typo.
A senior civil servant received an email from (call me) Dave in which he had mistyped 'The City' as 'Teh City'.
A phone call was made to point out this error and Dave said "Oh yes I see". The cs heard this as "Oh yes a C" and naturally assumed that to be a missing letter. Obviously he had never heard of Tech City but assumed that he should have and therefore set in motion the creation of the catastrophe that now exists.
the world would evolve beyond all recognition, and he'd be left with many useless facts from yesteryear. Perhaps the rest world would thank the archaic organisation called BBC for its foresight, and increase of actual knowledge in the world. Then again, the BBC might actually rule the world by that point via dissemination of news that causes the world governments to implode, and fund itself by forcing the world to pay a license fee.
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