internet

Back in the day... Around 1995 I would have been about 15 and a sophomore in high school. I knew about computers. I knew about the internet, but if you had told me then that I would be able to carry all of that technology around in my pocket now I would have laughed at you!

I can't check my Facebook page these days without seeing at least one picture of a dinosaur, or Futurama character Phillip J. Fry waxing poetic with some random thought, observation, question, or dig at one of society's sub-cultures. These "memes" are taking over quickly so I figured it was time to figure out what they were and how to make one so I can catch up to the rest of the world.

Predictions about technology are notoriously tough to make. Still, the experts and visionaries often get it right — but when they don’t, they get it colossally wrong. Here are some of history’s most famously bungled insights made by tech giants and industry bigwigs, as rounded-up by Scientific American.

Alright, I'm feeling nostalgic tonight and I've found myself on a 90s kick. When I ran across this video from MTV News from 1995 talking about the latest big technological advancement... The Internet! Watch Celebs Billy Corgan, Sandra Bullock, Coolie, Dave Mathews, and more talk about how cool the internet is... in 1995. Wow! How far we've come!

You know how full of rage you get when your favorite website is down or when your Internet connection is acting finicky? Well, imagine a country-wide outage that lasted for half a day -- all because a 75-year-old woman accidentally clipped the wrong cable.