The evening rant
Jan. 3rd, 2003 03:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsumikSo I know I posted about this before but...
It's sad to relize that bad experiences in life have a tendency to make people more realists then dreamers. I realize I'm alot more of a realist now then how much I used to be a dreamer. But the sad part to that is all most all children are dreamers... alas why does bad experiences have to be the fuel into being a "grown up"
And has anyone else besides me noticed the Aol AIM servers getting sketchier? Then the thought crossed my mind... of all the online friends I have and how tragic the world would be disconnected if aol pulled all it's AIM servers. I think I'm under the correct assumption that AOL has all the servers that supply AIM to the masses. I mean it would be like stepping back in time. I look at my 500+ AIM lists and go I really wonder how many of these people I would be able to get back in touch with if I lost AIM. Cause some of them AIM is the only way I know/talk to them. And with AOL/TimeWarners stock they say that if you took AOL out Time Warner's stock price wouldn't change essentially meaning AOL is worth 0. Have dealt with AOL first hand on a business level with my company it's very apparent that AOL is truely a struggling beast. They're a little late for the broadband bandwagon and everything they had going right before isn't working anymore. They forgot all about that need to constantly evolve to stay viable in the technology market. It's sort of funny in my own mind how I think AOL's doom sort of perpetuated.
I think back to when I was a internet junkie (read hacker) in junior high school. We used to always tout that AOL sucked cause it didn't allow Unix shells etc. Well back then AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve etc was good for people who didn't understand the confusing internet. But like things that become mainstream and people wanting to be be wannabes and hip people in something that really isn't new, I notice alot of people nowadays finding some little program on the internet etc calling themselves hackers and what not. And the best part of it all is they say AOL sucks but they have no idea why. So it started to become hip and cool to say AOL sucks and then mom's and dad's not know much about computer just take for granted there children who are more techonology connected saying AOL sucks that maybe AOL does suck. =) So AOL making themselves in every home becoming mainstream and bring people to understanding the internet was their eventual knife for suicide. But then again they could have just evolved and been the next step for the new internet crowd.
It's sad to relize that bad experiences in life have a tendency to make people more realists then dreamers. I realize I'm alot more of a realist now then how much I used to be a dreamer. But the sad part to that is all most all children are dreamers... alas why does bad experiences have to be the fuel into being a "grown up"
And has anyone else besides me noticed the Aol AIM servers getting sketchier? Then the thought crossed my mind... of all the online friends I have and how tragic the world would be disconnected if aol pulled all it's AIM servers. I think I'm under the correct assumption that AOL has all the servers that supply AIM to the masses. I mean it would be like stepping back in time. I look at my 500+ AIM lists and go I really wonder how many of these people I would be able to get back in touch with if I lost AIM. Cause some of them AIM is the only way I know/talk to them. And with AOL/TimeWarners stock they say that if you took AOL out Time Warner's stock price wouldn't change essentially meaning AOL is worth 0. Have dealt with AOL first hand on a business level with my company it's very apparent that AOL is truely a struggling beast. They're a little late for the broadband bandwagon and everything they had going right before isn't working anymore. They forgot all about that need to constantly evolve to stay viable in the technology market. It's sort of funny in my own mind how I think AOL's doom sort of perpetuated.
I think back to when I was a internet junkie (read hacker) in junior high school. We used to always tout that AOL sucked cause it didn't allow Unix shells etc. Well back then AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve etc was good for people who didn't understand the confusing internet. But like things that become mainstream and people wanting to be be wannabes and hip people in something that really isn't new, I notice alot of people nowadays finding some little program on the internet etc calling themselves hackers and what not. And the best part of it all is they say AOL sucks but they have no idea why. So it started to become hip and cool to say AOL sucks and then mom's and dad's not know much about computer just take for granted there children who are more techonology connected saying AOL sucks that maybe AOL does suck. =) So AOL making themselves in every home becoming mainstream and bring people to understanding the internet was their eventual knife for suicide. But then again they could have just evolved and been the next step for the new internet crowd.
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Date: 2003-01-03 06:12 am (UTC)I suppose it's because I think that if I know everything and am all grown up, then I won't have to face scary situations any more.
Or that maybe I'll be grown up enough to handle them.
But I doubt that I'll ever grow up enough.