Part of the problem (as I preach to the choir) is that too many of us are taken in by all the "eye candy." "My" version of the Internet would be a lot more visually boring than what we have now, because I'd rather have quality of content and performance over every visually-based enhancement that's come along.
that would reduce bandwidth consumption considerably, too- and a lot of those darn kids will stop consuming all our bandwidth! Darn kids, with their rock and roll and their eight-track tapes.
One problem though- how does that fit googles vision of a web-based OS, which I honestly find laughable, since it simply gives ISP services complete control. Nowadays you can have a functioning computer without internet, but what about if this whole "web OS" thing comes through? Will usage of a computer suddenly
require internet access?
I didn't have the internet on my home computer for my first 4 years of learning programming- it was me, the computer, Visual Basic, and the MSDN library.
I swear I went through almost every article in that library, no matter how redundant the topic... and I learned alot from my browsing of it. Now you can start up a browser, enter a search, and 9 times out of ten, you've got what you're looking for! Where is the accidental side-tracking into irrelevant topics due to the crappy nature of the MSDN search feature? Sure, one could say that it's better- but without accidentally looking at a topic that was highly ranked for no reason, how can you hope to gain insight into anything other then the topic of your search.
Isn't this enough, google? Do people REALLY want to simply skip the "start the browser" step, or are you perhaps being guided by want of a more girthful wallet?
