Date:         Tue, 2 Jan 2001 22:06:59 -0330
Reply-To:     KEITH PIKE <kappy@NF.SYMPATICO.CA>
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From:         KEITH PIKE <kappy@NF.SYMPATICO.CA>
Subject:      Pioneers
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O, Pioneers!

Happy New Year, and congratulations! You're an Internet
pioneer. You made it online by the millennium, 2001. OK, so
we all know about the calendar thing, but if it really
doesn't matter which millennium is the "real" one today,
who's going to care in the future? Either way, you're a
leader. In the future, people will tend to forget that the
Internet, the World Wide Web and the cyberrevolution began
in the late 20th century -- just like they tend to forget
that people were driving cars in the late 19th century.
Automobiles are a 20th-century technology, and the Internet
will be remembered as a 21st-century technology. Most of
the world isn't online yet, but it's coming, and in a big
way. And if you're reading this, you can go down in history
as a cyber-pioneer. If you drove a Benz or a Duryea back in
1898, you were ahead of your time and ahead of the curve.
In the future, it won't matter if you were online in 1989
or Dec. 31, 2000 -- you were there!

Keith

 

"The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better."
- Emile Zola, Le Docteur Pascal, 1893

 


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