My "Beloit List"

You have probably heard of the terrific list Beloit College makes every year describing the mindset of students entering college, to help older people understand them. Well, I have my own list.

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.