As usual, the late Douglas Adams said it best:
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.
... and maybe now it's a soapbox ...
(quote spotted on one of JonathanSturm's Ephimerides http://sturmsoft.com/ pages; see also SomethingToSell (14 Apr 2002), ThisSpaceFor (17 Feb 2003),For Themselves (8 Jun 2003), MaxHeadroom (11 Sep 2003), ... )
TopicHumor - TopicSociety - 2004-09-20
(correlates: TrueNames, SirJonathan, MaxHeadroom, ...)