18: Managing The Onslaught
Mac Power Users
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🗓️ 30 January 2010
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Mac Power Users, Episode 18, of the Mac Power Users Podcast. I'm Katie Floyd alongside |
| 0:25.4 | with my co-host David Sparks. Feeling a little under the weather today, David. |
| 0:29.7 | I am actually doing great, Katie, just getting over a cold and a little |
| 0:33.5 | congested you know I'm gonna be getting over one yeah I hardly ever get sick |
| 0:38.0 | but boy this one has really congested me a lot I the only thing I found that works is Jack Daniels, but I didn't think it would be very good if I did that before the show. |
| 0:47.0 | That might make an interesting show. |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah. That's true. Well, anyway, we're here to talk about the onslaught today. I'm kind of excited about this topic. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, now maybe define for people because I think the onslaught is your term. What is the onslaught? |
| 1:01.0 | It's the information that attacks you every day if you're a web person. |
| 1:04.0 | Okay. And I thought we'd talk first a little bit about you know where it came from. |
| 1:08.0 | Back in the day you know they first started putting computers on the internet for |
| 1:12.2 | consumers there were services like Comp you you know they first started putting computers on the internet for consumers |
| 1:13.5 | there were services like CompuServe and AOL and I don't know if you remember not |
| 1:18.1 | but I remember the first time I logged on to CompuServe and I saw those menus where I could get news and information and |
| 1:27.6 | stock quotes like I have money for stock quotes but the it just blew me away that all that information was just right on your screen |
| 1:35.5 | you had this window to the world. Well and some of the information was very easy |
| 1:39.6 | access but others you had to dig deeper and deeper and deeper and you had to get into |
| 1:42.9 | forums and you had to get into news groups and there were all kinds of you |
| 1:46.8 | know primitive message boards at that time and chat and you know it was great because it was new but we've kind of moved beyond that |
| 1:55.6 | yeah and then there was the baby web you know h g email started and people started |
| 2:00.0 | making websites and that was another you know kind of revolutionary move. |
| 2:04.0 | And I remember when I first realized you could get a web browser and go look at somebody's page |
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