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mucifer

(23,533 posts) Sat Nov 2, 2019, 11:26 AM Nov 2019

Bill Gates Explaining the Internet to a Skeptical David Letterman in 1995:

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Bill Gates Explaining the Internet to a Skeptical David Letterman in 1995: (Original Post) mucifer Nov 2019 OP

LOL someone should play that back to him now on his new Netflix show Eliot Rosewater Nov 2019 #1

LOL.. If he only knew. dewsgirl Nov 2019 #2

All of us back then all had to explain the Internet/the benefits of computer technologies/etc. ... SWBTATTReg Nov 2019 #3

Also Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric LakeArenal Nov 2019 #4

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)

1. LOL someone should play that back to him now on his new Netflix show

Reply to mucifer (Original post)

Sat Nov 2, 2019, 11:32 AM

Nov 2019

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)

2. LOL.. If he only knew.

Reply to mucifer (Original post)

Sat Nov 2, 2019, 11:32 AM

Nov 2019

SWBTATTReg

(22,112 posts)

3. All of us back then all had to explain the Internet/the benefits of computer technologies/etc. ...

Reply to mucifer (Original post)

Sat Nov 2, 2019, 12:06 PM

Nov 2019

It wasn't easy either. When I helped set up the in house business internet for my company, we sat in numerous in house meetings to explain what this was for, the benefits of, etc. Literally up to 8 meetings a day, meeting w/ clients, etc. to explain and re-explain the benefits. This was back in the mid 1980s.

LakeArenal

(28,817 posts)

4. Also Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric

Reply to mucifer (Original post)

Sat Nov 2, 2019, 12:13 PM

Nov 2019

said it was just a fad.

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