This film accurately predicted several things.

"The Internet AS WE KNOW IT (ie: the world wide web) did not exist until at least the early 90s, with the development of http.
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Wrong.

World Wide Web can be accessed via, but is not the internet.

From wikipedia:

"The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet.

The terms Internet and World Wide Web are often used without much distinction. However, the two are not the same. The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks. In contrast, the World Wide Web is a global collection of documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URIs. Web resources are usually accessed using HTTP, which is one of many Internet communication protocols"

In mid-1990s, I was already sick of people, who confuse 'World Wide Web' and 'Internet'. They are two different things, please don't lie about it.

And it's HTTP, not "http". WWW has to do with HTTP indeed, but both are just a tiny part of the whole internet.

Internet is not software, it's not a protocol, it's not a small part of itself.

The internet is a network of millions of computers and server, accessible via ISPs.

Try to keep your facts straight, it's just as easy as to get them wrong, and it'll create less work for me, because then I don't have to be correcting stupidity and ignorance all the time.

Verbose. Make a life for yourself.

"a lot of technologies that already existed in 1986 (modem, databases, barcode scanner, interactive televisions)"

Is the "interactive television" the video games like Atari and PlayStation, or are you talking about something else?

You could use it to scan/purchase products right off the screen by simply waving the scanner in front of it. The idea did not catch on and the company soon went bankrupt.

well no shit , what the fuck would be the point of that?
Any tech company making products that show a complete ignorance of what a keyboard or mouse is for deserve to go bust!


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its crossed my mind that maybe the idea was to scan the code on a actual thing you already possessed in order to order another one .... but that would still be monumentally dumb.

... or maybe the code is on a catalogue full of pictures of things you might want to buy .
.. still incredibly dumb idea.

sounds like the company just had a load of barcode scanners to get rid of!
a solution looking for a probelm , and if that cant be found , fake one .