Web vs CB radio

[Earl Young]

     It's not likely to be another CB radio fad.  First of all, Kris 
     Kristoferson (sp?) hasn't made bad movies about the Internet.  I 
     haven't heard any country songs about it, either.  There will be lots 
     of folks who start and stop - but the underlying network (as opposed 
     to some of the fluff that is transported across the network) is a 
     fundamental shift in information distribution.  Those tend not to go 
     away.
     
     Earl Young


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Subject: Web vs CB radio
Author:  bmcdonnell at andover.edu at INTERNET
Date:    2/25/97 11:19 AM


     
     
     
Joe Schallan wrote:
     
The contrarian in me makes me ask, Is the web to the 90s 
what CB radio was to the 70s?  As you may recall, CB was 
useful and fun until so many people crowded onto it
that it became unusable.  Could it be that in twenty years 
we'll still be loaning books and answering reference questions, 
while the older among us will wistfully look at one another 
from time to time and say "Remember the web?"
     
     
An interesting point and not one to be taken lightly. We are now moving 
toward having the library catalog available to patrons on our Internet 
homepage ( using WebCat by Sirsi) rather than what we envisioned only a few 
years ago, which was to have the Internet as a choice on the library 
server.  Is it shortsighted to put all our eggs in the Internet basket?
     
                         Bobbie
     
     
                Bobbie McDonnell
                Oliver Wendell Holmes Library
                Phillips Academy
                bmcdonnell at andover.edu