I’ve been poking around on “the internet” for quite some time.
It occurs to me that things that we do on the ‘net now were laughably impossible just a few years ago. I remember when it was uncommon for a computer to have a network card; now I carry at least 2 wifi-capable devices on my person for an overnight trip away from home.
For all the advances that we’ve made, I can still see that there’s room for improvement. I’m sitting in an airport, with an hour to kill before my flight. There’s “free public wifi” in the airport, which works flawlessly. Except…
I keep locking up Netflix while trying to stream video across the ‘net.
It’s funny to me that my first reaction to this was irritation. Two years ago, I wouldn’t have expected to be online while sitting here, not without some “special” hardware or jumping through a few hoops. 5 years ago, I wouldn’t have tried to stream video at home, let alone “out in public”. 10 years ago, my computer could barely play a DVD.
Yet here I sit, “the internet” has failed me again. I can imagine this post will look pretty funny a few years down the road.
I’ll stick to surfing, maybe play a video off the hard drive.
Welcome to “the cloud”.