Chip Rowe Welcomes Us To "Cyberdumb", 1994
We found this post from 1994 endlessly amusing:
Welcome to CyberDumb...Cyberspace has to be the most overblown recreational activity to hit America since cocaine. If you read the hot magazines such as Wired, you know that you're either online or one of the 230 million Americans who are hopelessly behind the times. Well, I've been to the information highway and back, and best I can tell the Internet is a collection of morons typing moronic messages back and forth about moronic topics that make you feel like a moron for participating....
Ironically, when us regular folks log on - the ones who visit our grandmother so she won't die alone, who grow gardens so the birds have a place to rest, who visit the library to help a boy retrieve a book about Thomas Jefferson from a high shelf - we are pushed to the bottom of the Inter Caste. We don't know enough, we don't know what we're doing, we're asking dumb questions. There's a Netiquette, as it's called, that says you shouldn't ask dumb questions. Of course, a dumb question is anything that's been asked and answered. READ MORE
