Flame War: The Modern InterWebs
Posted in InterWebs, Music, Technology on April 16th, 2009 by Dr. WarthanTags: Awesome, Billy Joel, Cool, Flame War, Heavy Metal, Internet, Marylin Monroe, Modern, MTV, Suicide, The Good Old Days, We didn't start the fire
OMG, this is so funny. I love these College Humor guys, and this parody of Billy Joel’s “We didn’t start the fire” masterfully captures the modern internet. Also, I saw Billy Joel’s video debut on MTV back when they played video’s. For anyone over 30, this should be a scarey wake up call.
I remember a world populated with Commodore 64′s, VCR’s the size of microwave ovens, microwave ovens the size of dog houses, cassette tapes coming in as 8-tracks went out, and you could smoke anywhere (bus, airplane, library, work, you name it). I’m an IT professional, and the modern Internet is a very scarey place. The future is cloud computing, wireless video and power and everything else, throw away data centers, and vertical farming. Whoa, I need to live a life of solitude in my airship as it floats along the air currents high above civilization; kind of like that world in BioShock, but up in the sky…
