For students entering college in 2012:
- Token Ring has always been a bad idea.
- Ditto ISDN.
- Cookies have always been stored on computers, not in jars.
- Computers have always been plug-and-play, or at least plug-and-pray.
- Google has always been misspelled.
- Speaking of spelling, spill checkers have always fixed there miss takes.
- There's never been a need to distinguish "the big I Internet" from an internet.
- The Internet has always been commercial.
- The Internet has always supported streaming video, and it has always sucked.
- Al Gore has always been more famous for inventing the Internet and global warming, than for being a VP, or for winning the 2000 election.
- The term "Information Superhighway" has always sounded dumb.
- Amazon has never been just a river.
- Yahoo has never meant "red neck."
- Red Hat has always referred to an operating system rather than something Communists wear.
- Commodore has always been bankrupt.
- Women and African Americans have always been a tiny minority in the computer field (they were just a simple minority in the 1980s).
- OSI has always been just a model for teaching networking.
- We've always been running out of IPv4 addresses.
