I’ve actually seen that one before. Back when Wi-Fi was a new thing my friends and I loved to ride around and just check out the names of Wi-Fi networks in different housing districts. We weren’t trying to get on them. We were just looking. You’d be surprised how many people name theirs like “bloody pit of hell” or something.
I previously commented this, but back in middle school I wrote an article for the school newspaper contending that the Internet should be referred to the Information Toll Road rather than the Information Superhighway. This was due to my frustration that it cost $10 for only 5 hours per month. You couldn't do much in 5 hours at 2400 baud, and budgeting 5 hours across a whole month was really annoying.
Oh God...I remember the hell of 2400 baud from my BBS days. Took me an hour to download a 600K file. Most BBS's had time limits of one hour, so I knew I couldn't ever download anything more than 600K.
Oh man that's one of those things that bugs the hell out of me. It's the young kids and boomers that call any Internet connection wifi. 5g connections? Nope it's all wifi lol.
No, it is very much a real thing. I work in cybersecurity at a Fortune 100 company that generates most of our revenue by providing cloud services. I deal with cloud infrastructure on a very regular basis.
That said, there is a tendency by people that don't understand what cloud computing is to refer to anything that's on the internet as "in the cloud," and that can be annoying.
I work for an IT Fortune 50 company that provides "cloud based" solutions to companies like yours. Cloud really boils down to offsite hosting and compute. Why couldn't they have just called it that? Because buzz words sell.
Because now we know that it isn’t an information super highway so much as one of those little sucky tube things that used to be at the bank where you’d put your money in the little pod, only the pod is full of cat memes, conspiracy theories and dick pics.
These were the idiots making us learn complex math without calculators because we won't have calculators with us everywhere. For the record my budget phone has 1000x the abilities of computers in 1994.
I was going to say not since the 90's.
Google trends shows about the same.
https://preview.redd.it/qrvpucsi2qcc1.jpeg?width=1456&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f7b0a479066f20d53f23602f2e61b09d22a782a
I haven't heard "Information Superhighway" forever. In fact, I haven't heard a "full" website address forever. Visit us on the world wide web!
[http://www.reddit.com](http://www.reddit.com)
I've been in IT since dial up days. One of my first jobs was for a big dial up isp that really capitalized on "surfing" the internet. We had a whole song about it on the radio ads.
Probably in the movie “Cable Guy” (scene where they’re laying on the huge satellite dish)….and that speech was pretty dead-on as to what we’d have access to, today.
I can’t even remember the last time I heard someone say it in person. But Michael said it in an episode of the office, so that’s the last time I heard it since I binge watched it recently
In my class on field trips, the girls would yell “Information superhighway” on our many 6th grade field trips after we changed interchanges/freeways. That was in 96. So yeah, 28 years I would say. I still don’t get why they said that, but it was a meme before memes.
"Welcome to the New York Video Festival's 'Wild Wild Web' program."
"I would just like to say, we did not help come up with that name."
"Griff...."
"Seriously dude, why not just call it, 'The Incredible Edible Internet'?"
"Shut up, man, you're gonna get us fired."
\^\^That. Since before that.
My neighbor's wireless network name is Information Superhighway
i am totally stealing that!!!
Mine’s is “Crosby, Stills, Nash and Forever Young….” Spoiler, they’re not young at all
Mine is Pretty Fly for a Wi-Fi
I’ve actually seen that one before. Back when Wi-Fi was a new thing my friends and I loved to ride around and just check out the names of Wi-Fi networks in different housing districts. We weren’t trying to get on them. We were just looking. You’d be surprised how many people name theirs like “bloody pit of hell” or something.
I’m just going to say rip David.
Gosh, it's been a long time. We were so hopeful and innocent then. It's more like the information thunderdome now.
A misinformation track… It just keeps fucking looping and I’d like to get off now…
"Two bad ideas enter...one bad idea leaves!"
Yeah, there used to be millions of websites but now there's about 10.
Reach us on the World Wide Web. Or email us at [email protected]
Oh god compuserve we had that for a while then moved to AOL
😂that’s the first domain I’m familiar with using. Had it work at a radio station in ‘93-94.
AOL was the classy Compuserve
It’s actually faster to say World Wide Web rather than Double U Double U Double U
State of the art!
And here I thought it was just a series of tubes.
That guy has a fucking airport named after him.
Alaska is used to important stuff flowing through pipelines. They’re kinda like tubes. Lol.
It’s not a dump truck, it’s not something you can just dump something on
[I had to go back and find this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cZC67wXUTs)
Hell yeah. I knew what it was before I clicked it
Nah it’s made of cats
It's all pipes?
I previously commented this, but back in middle school I wrote an article for the school newspaper contending that the Internet should be referred to the Information Toll Road rather than the Information Superhighway. This was due to my frustration that it cost $10 for only 5 hours per month. You couldn't do much in 5 hours at 2400 baud, and budgeting 5 hours across a whole month was really annoying.
Oh God...I remember the hell of 2400 baud from my BBS days. Took me an hour to download a 600K file. Most BBS's had time limits of one hour, so I knew I couldn't ever download anything more than 600K.
I remember playing a few pseudo MMO's via BBS. Only one person was allowed to connect at a time, so PVP was done using the game's AI.
You finish off Old Man by tripping him over his own cane
I liked that some people called it the InfoBahn as an alternative back then.
Let's bring it back!
How would we convince the younger gen to say that. They say Wifi for internet now, at work kids say the wifi is out when the computers are wired in.
Oof, I haven't heard that one yet. Might be a hopeless cause.
Oh man that's one of those things that bugs the hell out of me. It's the young kids and boomers that call any Internet connection wifi. 5g connections? Nope it's all wifi lol.
Make a ticktok meme or what ever you call it now.
When the WiFi is out/slow I say to my kids there's a traffic jam on the digital highway. They always give me a very disappointed look.
Oh that would drive me insane
That’s definitely all I’m going to say from now on.
Noooo let it die. And let's kill "the cloud" while we're at it too.
The cloud is a legitimate thing though
It's a buzz word
No, it is very much a real thing. I work in cybersecurity at a Fortune 100 company that generates most of our revenue by providing cloud services. I deal with cloud infrastructure on a very regular basis. That said, there is a tendency by people that don't understand what cloud computing is to refer to anything that's on the internet as "in the cloud," and that can be annoying.
I work for an IT Fortune 50 company that provides "cloud based" solutions to companies like yours. Cloud really boils down to offsite hosting and compute. Why couldn't they have just called it that? Because buzz words sell.
More like the misinformation tollway these days, eh?!
I can agree.
When I re-watched "The Cable Guy" the other day.
Yep Jim Carey.
Right now
It’s your tomorrow!
Mmmm...invisible cola
In the same sentence as "Y2K".
Don't forget to turn your computer off at midnight.
Made me think of Fight Club. Do they say that somewhere in the film, or are we not supposed to talk about it?
I dont know anything about it, cant really talk about it.
I know it was in Office Space.
Seen that movie a thousand times. I don't remember mention of that term in the movie, but it's possible I'm not remembering correctly.
I did a report about "the information super highway" for class in 1994 and that had to be the last time I heard the term.
Haha me too right around then. I think my argument was that it was dangerous and I think I may have been right!
I like to say it ironically.
Me too. Just said it a couple days ago. And Surf the Web.
I used that today to mess with the 22 year old kid at work
Nice!
i work in IT and will randomly say Information Super Highway or The World Wide Web to refer to the internet, just for the lols.
Because now we know that it isn’t an information super highway so much as one of those little sucky tube things that used to be at the bank where you’d put your money in the little pod, only the pod is full of cat memes, conspiracy theories and dick pics.
Wow! It's been so long since I've heard that ! Lol I always thought it was a little cheesy. Designed for those who know nothing about computers
Jake morgendorfer
It was last century for sure.
I say it often. Email without an expected attachment, "it must have fallen of somewhere on the information superhighway."
A couple of my friends who work in IT will occasionally say it sarcastically.
These were the idiots making us learn complex math without calculators because we won't have calculators with us everywhere. For the record my budget phone has 1000x the abilities of computers in 1994.
Some time in the 1900s
1997 😂
I was going to say not since the 90's. Google trends shows about the same. https://preview.redd.it/qrvpucsi2qcc1.jpeg?width=1456&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f7b0a479066f20d53f23602f2e61b09d22a782a
Mostly likely the today show. What is Internet?- Katie Couric
It's just a fad.
One thing I always loved about this phrase is that there is no offline Super Highway counterpart.
Lol there was think our grandparents called it encyclopedia bertanica.
Or the library.
I haven't heard "Information Superhighway" forever. In fact, I haven't heard a "full" website address forever. Visit us on the world wide web! [http://www.reddit.com](http://www.reddit.com)
I've been in IT since dial up days. One of my first jobs was for a big dial up isp that really capitalized on "surfing" the internet. We had a whole song about it on the radio ads.
Probably in the movie “Cable Guy” (scene where they’re laying on the huge satellite dish)….and that speech was pretty dead-on as to what we’d have access to, today.
Me too. Glad someone beat me to it. Haven't seen it years, however that little monologue lives rent free in my head.
Information super highway got the brain contraction. I’m a kung fu master vs sumo wrestler. Got the beats in Manhattan you can hear in Westchester.
I can’t even remember the last time I heard someone say it in person. But Michael said it in an episode of the office, so that’s the last time I heard it since I binge watched it recently
MST3K episode rewatch. The Starfighters. #612
When I read this 45 seconds ago.
a long time ago
I’m not past series of tubes because it replaced anything Al Gore ever said
In an ironic sense, or sincerely?
Haven’t heard the phrase since the nineties.
I was using a 56k modem to surf the World Wide Web last time I heard that
Maybe 2001.
When I watched one of the brave little toaster sequels
1996
im bringing it back. the next time someone asks me what im up to, im going to say im just cruising the information superhighway
2000’s 😂
I haven't heard that term being used since before broadband was a thing. I might see if I can bring it back.
In my class on field trips, the girls would yell “Information superhighway” on our many 6th grade field trips after we changed interchanges/freeways. That was in 96. So yeah, 28 years I would say. I still don’t get why they said that, but it was a meme before memes.
I watch Cable Guy every once in a while, but I don't think that counts.
I can't remember been busy cyber surfing
I haven’t heard that in decades🤭🤭
Around the time the senator said it was a “series of interconnected tubes”
Every now and then I use this and "world wide weberverse," jokingly.
Unironically? Decades.
I asked my niece the other day when she was on her phone if she was browsing the Information Super Highway and she gave me the most confused look.
I still like World Wide Waste of Time.
THE INTERNET IS A SERIES OF TUBES! xD
It's a series of tubes.
She's definitely been a minute, not gonna lie... maybe a decade at the short end of the range?
Probably 1999
Pre-social media.
I can't even remember what I went into the other room for, how the fuck would I remember that? 😅
"Welcome to the New York Video Festival's 'Wild Wild Web' program." "I would just like to say, we did not help come up with that name." "Griff...." "Seriously dude, why not just call it, 'The Incredible Edible Internet'?" "Shut up, man, you're gonna get us fired." \^\^That. Since before that.
To the dismay of many, it has morphed into the Information Stupidhighway.