I’ll always remember the 80s as the decade of the internet..

I stumbled upon this image today during my morning browsing and I couldn’t help but to laugh.

At first it was the idea that the 90s was the decade of the mobile internet.  Um… really?  I can pretty much remember browsing the internet on my first Sony/Sprint phone.  After about 10 minutes (and who knows how many dollars) I think I had rendered some bad mobile site’s input field to search for movie times or something.  The search results would have taken another half hour I’m sure.

My first reaction was that they had leapfrogged a decade – one could argue that the 00s was the decade of the mobile internet (but I would really push that to the 10s).

But then I saw the 80s.

Really?  Internet computing in the 80s?  I barely had my Compuserve account in the 80s (like, ’89) let alone — a Google screen shot?!  I’m not sure I’d associate a company founded in 1998 with the decade of Pac Man and the Apple II.

Makes one question Morgan Stanley’s credibility.  Though I guess you don’t need this image to tell you that banks don’t always get it right.

8 Replies to “I’ll always remember the 80s as the decade of the internet..”

  1. haha… i commented on your buzz from this. http only came into being around 1990. the “internet” itself was barely anything other than government and education at that stage. morgan stanley… bleh. btw, is this wordpress?

  2. Yes – I saw this on TechCrunch. Generally I think they're a good source for what's going on but every now and then they're way off base. In this case, yeah – slapping an image like this in there definitely calls into question the validity of anything else included in the post.

    I also don't think he did a good job of linking to one of his firm's investments.

  3. Ahh.. Buzz.

    Well fortunately, Buzz told me that I made this posting initially (thank god!) but didn't tell me that you replied.

    Why does Google think that I want an email in my inbox that tells me that I wrote a blog post?

    Anyway.. Yes, wordpress – with some plugins like Disqus for commenting.

  4. haha… i commented on your buzz from this. http only came into being around 1990. the “internet” itself was barely anything other than government and education at that stage. morgan stanley… bleh. btw, is this wordpress?

  5. Yes – I saw this on TechCrunch. Generally I think they're a good source for what's going on but every now and then they're way off base. In this case, yeah – slapping an image like this in there definitely calls into question the validity of anything else included in the post.

    I also don't think he did a good job of linking to one of his firm's investments.

  6. Ahh.. Buzz.

    Well fortunately, Buzz told me that I made this posting initially (thank god!) but didn't tell me that you replied.

    Why does Google think that I want an email in my inbox that tells me that I wrote a blog post?

    Anyway.. Yes, wordpress – with some plugins like Disqus for commenting.

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