12.21.2006

Oh sure there is. But thanks for playing.

"There simply is not enough digital marketing talent in the world," Kenny said.

Ah, Bunky, back in the day, back in the dawn of time, before fire, before the wheel, before the World Wide Web even, there was the Internet and it was emphatically non-commercial. Bulletin boards erupted in raging flame wars over the mere mention of an employer's name. Never mind your pop-up Flash.

And it was good. Geeks occupied themselves with wonderful, exciting things, like scooting around with something called "Gopher" and finding fascinating files about...well, I don't know, I never found any myself, but hey. And there was FTP! And IRC! And Telnet and email, of course. And who could forget ping?

But now...now. Blogs. YouTube. Internet telephones and video IM. Downloadable music and movies (yes! even legal!). Audiobooks and podcasts. And email of course. With smileys. All because of that "digital marketing" stuff. Well partly, anyway.

What's the world coming to, I wonder.

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