On 10 January 2011 14:46, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
I think we've finally broken the barrier and acquired an exulted status hitherto shared only by such institutions as the BBC and the NHS.
I saw an ad in Kings Cross tube station headlining something as "The Wikipedia of ..." I forget. Wish I'd had a camera to hand.
We're more than famous, we're part of the framework. How the hell did that happen?
By making the Internet not suck, presumably. This is also the secret of Google's success (I remember the feeling of using Cuil: "this allows us to show the kids what search engines were like before Google, and why they get all that money"), but is a "large and important company" rather than "an institution". Useful, that nonprofit charity thing.
- d.