The Corruption of the 'Net: Part II

Since the last post was hastily written and somewhat incoherent, I'll elaborate here. Computing has become a commodity. Innovation is dead. When was the last time you saw a truly innovative piece of hardware? How about industry-changing software? It's all been evolutionary. The last innovation that I remember was the X Window System, and even that was merely an evolution of earlier GUI systems; supporting client/server networking as an integral part of the software was important enough to qualify as innovative. Windows and UNIX and Mac have merely been evolving; is the latest build of Vista really that different from Windows 95? Linux has improved more, but almost all of that is user-friendliness and hardware support; nothing revolutionary. Mac OS has mated their nifty user experience with FreeBSD. Cool, certainly; but in the grand scale of things not that great.

People tell me the Internet is revolutionary, and I tell them they are idiots. The Internet is just an improvement on networking technologies that have existed since the '60s. The fact that the incompetent can access them is no real improvement.