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Internet Event of the Year: 2009
Lord Jezo
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Oy, it's time again!
We can take a look back in time to see what we all thought was the ultimate internet event from a few years past.
2008: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=78655
2007: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=44279
Now for 2009, what was the internet event of the year? Was it the rise of Twitter, again, or did something else sweep through the intent culture? What was the Chocolate Rain of 2009?
How will we remember this year in the eons to come? What defined us all?
We can take a look back in time to see what we all thought was the ultimate internet event from a few years past.
2008: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=78655
2007: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=44279
Now for 2009, what was the internet event of the year? Was it the rise of Twitter, again, or did something else sweep through the intent culture? What was the Chocolate Rain of 2009?
How will we remember this year in the eons to come? What defined us all?
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You could also go with the IPhone and Android OS phones really exploding the use of mobile internet
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2. Bing went online.
3. Duke Nukem Forever is terminated.
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Yeah, might as well, I can't think of anything else.
Considering how CNN (and probably some others) were spending a decent amount of time on said tweets, I'm definitely seconding Twitter.
There are many more people dropping their cable for services like Netflix, Hulu and so on. I don't have cable. South Park? Watched the season's second half on their website. Venture Bros? Bought a season pass on iTunes. This year didn't kill traditional TV by any means, but I think it's the start of a trend.
That started long before 2009. Observational bias: you assume that you are the median and the mean. The US did transition to DTV in 2009 but that wasn't really an "internet" event. Blockbuster was bleeding business to netflix back in 2007.
2. Death of BoB (Delve is goons).
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Your Internet Event of the Year is an EVE event? Really?!
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how does a video game possibly compare to that
I always think of it as a shattering of hope.
The whole thing in Iran is still ongoing.
You mean the thing where Khamenei stepped in, declared Ahmadinejad's victory to be beyond question, locked up Mousavi in house arrest, and basically proved that the whole thing is just a puppet show, and he's the one in control, regardless of (fake) outcomes?
Yeah, I know.
Well the only reason he backed Ahmandinejad is because he has the loyalty of the army and the other guy doesn't. Otherwise there was basically no reason for him to not to back the popular candidate since they were effectively the same person- "Death to Israel, America is the Great Satan, yadda yadda yadda."
Also my vote goes to Twitter.
There are still protests. They have heated up drastically in the last couple days. More people arrested and/or killed. Despite the Iranian regime's attempt to block it, twitter and youtube are still being heavily utilized to spread information and first hand accounts.
It appears to be far from over.
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I mean, they employed twitter, facebook, myspace, youtube, and every other tube in the series just to get news out. Limiting it to Twitter is disingenuous to the event itself.
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Good point actually.
It's most definitely NOT DNF.
Or Bing. C'mon, Bing? Really?
Wolfram Alpha and Bing had about the same release buzz. Have you heard Wolfram Alpha in the last month? No, you haven't.
Although it doesn't matter in the slightest, so why not?
Well Wolfram Alpha is mainly aimed at academics and researchers, so I'm not surprised the majority of a video games forum haven't heard of it for a while.
Having access to the internet everywhere has changed it a lot for me.
RC is anything that falls outside our classification system.
RC includes: World of warcraft, fetishes, pro-abortion, anti-abortion, youtube, wikileaks. basically anything outside a MA15+ audience.
yeah.
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I pretty much only started using wolfram alpha in the last month
They have.
They can't clamp down on cell phone signal everywhere, and cell phones can text twitter. That's pretty impossible to stop at the moment, short of turning off the countries cell phone towers. And that's hard.
Well wouldn't that be Mobile Internet then?
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Every ISP everywhere does as little as possible when told to do anything by a government. Not out of any particular concern for the interests of their customers but quite literally due to the enormous infrastructure momentum they have to deal with.
Employee: We're out of capacity, our customers are complaining.
Owner: Here's some cash, buy more gear.
Employee: Gov says we have to filter everything. We don't have the capacity.
Owner: Are they paying us to do it?
Employee: No.
Owner: Then they can go fuck themselves.
This arrangement is a near-universal constant in every commercial telco/isp around the planet. If the government won't pay private industry for doing the government's bidding, then private industry will sue the government until they don't have to do the government's bidding in the first place. When that doesn't work, private industry uses its backup plan, which is to do such a hilariously shitty job of doing the government's bidding that it has no impact.
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Yes, as somebody who plays EvE, it is the biggest internet event of 09 that has had an affect on me.
Hell, people back in 07 were giving it to some guy crying on youtube over Spears.
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Nah. That only works against private citizens and the press.
It's all about who's holding the biggest stick. In a country with privatized infrastructure, the nation's ONLY means of forcing an infrastructure provider to cooperate is to nationalize them.
See, you can shoot journalists. You can shoot citizens. You can even shoot engineers at a power company. They're all replaceable. If you shoot the people who know the passwords to the routers, you're up shit creek without a paddle. Makes it very hard to efficiently nationalize an ISP.
Gov Employee: I can't log into the router because nobody knows the company's passwords.
Gov Manager: Reset it.
Gov Employee: Done. Now nothing works.
..... Three months later...
Gov Manager: You figured out how they got that shit to work yet?
Gov Employee: Still working on it.
Most telcos are not nice, neat, well thought out setups. They're stacks of shitty out of date gear juryrigged to keep everything working for another year or two when the money will be there to get new stuff. If you get rid of the people who made it work, you might as well get rid of the gear too because everyone you hire will immediately ask for new equipment.
I heard some guy saying Twitter is great because he can see when Wil Wheaton updates his blog. I guess it's too much work to check the blog itself.
It's pretty clearly "not for me", but I don't know that it's "for" enough people to be an event of any significance.
Edit: Twitter is interesting in an "artificial constraints" sort of way. There's a certain art to conveying ideas in a set amount of characters, sure. It's like Megaman 9, in a way.
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That shit seems to have exploded big time this year. Hell, my parents are ~65 years old and they have a Face Book page! The only thing they used the computer for before was Solitaire.
My family is large and scattered across the country/world. Never before have we been able to stay in near constant contact. You used to get/make a phone call once a month or so, maybe shoot off an email to a few relatives, or send out holiday greeting cards. Now though, the whole Clan is communicating with everyone. Distant cousins, grand parents, brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, aunts and uncles. Family members who haven't seen each other in years are now up to speed on the goings on of each other.
Sure my story is anecdotal, but I find the whole thing absolutely bizarre in a world where technology has been seemingly driving people apart.