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Media / Entertainment / Science & Technology Prediction: World Wide Web fad may become bigger than CB radio craze
Posted by Bill Forman on Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:21 PM
Bolstered by interviews with such web-savvy visionaries as Sandra Bullock, Newt Gingrich, Perry Farrell and "cyber-journalist" David Bennahum, the report includes '90s rapper Coolio extolling the virtues of the "information superhighway" and a narrator who declares it the highest-profile "big-deal technological fad" since "the CB radio boom of the 1970s" — which is, of course, followed by footage of a semi driver blurting "All right, that's a big 10-4" into his citizens' band radio.
Stretching the trucker metaphor just a bit more, MTV goes on to describe the Internet's "proliferation of special interest truckstops called 'websites' and the arrival of 'network browser programs' that make the whole thing, if not idiot-proof, at least user-friendly."
