The Hospitality Management Anecdote
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@Minion-Queen said:
The thing that people always seem to forget. Colleges are a business they are not there to be helpful to you. They are filling their pockets with the crazy fees that people pay to take classes. They are car salesmen.
A major university in the Washington, D.C. area, when questioned as to why they were not providing a value to their students, stated that students are not the customers of a university but are simply their to provide funding for the professors to do other things. Educating the students was not their job nor did they care. The students were simply a revenue source for research.
Read: they felt, quite rightly, that any student at their university was a sucker and deserved to be taken advantage of.
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And I believe that that was George Mason University that said that. It has been a while.
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Yup, education and news outlets. For-profit businesses that have managed to convince the general populace that they are necessary, trustworthy, and looking out for something to do with truth, your best interests, or some other idealistic thing like that. Laughable, except for the fact that the rest of us are held hostage by their successful marketing and the consequences thereof.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@art_of_shred said:
The "internet", aka "cyberspace" was something you read about it Popular Science.....
Popular Science was the one that constantly called it the "Information Superhighway". OMG I can't believe that kids today have never heard that term. It was so common back then.
What are you talking about?! I know that term quite well!
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Minion-Queen said:
The thing that people always seem to forget. Colleges are a business they are not there to be helpful to you. They are filling their pockets with the crazy fees that people pay to take classes. They are car salesmen.
A major university in the Washington, D.C. area, when questioned as to why they were not providing a value to their students, stated that students are not the customers of a university but are simply their to provide funding for the professors to do other things. Educating the students was not their job nor did they care. The students were simply a revenue source for research.
Read: they felt, quite rightly, that any student at their university was a sucker and deserved to be taken advantage of.
*there
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@handsofqwerty said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@art_of_shred said:
The "internet", aka "cyberspace" was something you read about it Popular Science.....
Popular Science was the one that constantly called it the "Information Superhighway". OMG I can't believe that kids today have never heard that term. It was so common back then.
What are you talking about?! I know that term quite well!
I worked in a high school for a bit... In passing I mentioned the information super highway to a group of 8th graders during a lab period... they all looked at me with dumbfound expressions... I had to clarify that I was talking about the internet.
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@coliver said:
@handsofqwerty said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@art_of_shred said:
The "internet", aka "cyberspace" was something you read about it Popular Science.....
Popular Science was the one that constantly called it the "Information Superhighway". OMG I can't believe that kids today have never heard that term. It was so common back then.
What are you talking about?! I know that term quite well!
I worked in a high school for a bit... In passing I mentioned the information super highway to a group of 8th graders during a lab period... they all looked at me with dumbfound expressions... I had to clarify that I was talking about the internet.
Am I the only one my age who knows that term?!
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@handsofqwerty said:
@coliver said:
@handsofqwerty said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@art_of_shred said:
The "internet", aka "cyberspace" was something you read about it Popular Science.....
Popular Science was the one that constantly called it the "Information Superhighway". OMG I can't believe that kids today have never heard that term. It was so common back then.
What are you talking about?! I know that term quite well!
I worked in a high school for a bit... In passing I mentioned the information super highway to a group of 8th graders during a lab period... they all looked at me with dumbfound expressions... I had to clarify that I was talking about the internet.
Am I the only one my age who knows that term?!
I'm not much older then you... so I doubt it... but a few years younger then probably.
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@handsofqwerty said:
@coliver said:
@handsofqwerty said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@art_of_shred said:
The "internet", aka "cyberspace" was something you read about it Popular Science.....
Popular Science was the one that constantly called it the "Information Superhighway". OMG I can't believe that kids today have never heard that term. It was so common back then.
What are you talking about?! I know that term quite well!
I worked in a high school for a bit... In passing I mentioned the information super highway to a group of 8th graders during a lab period... they all looked at me with dumbfound expressions... I had to clarify that I was talking about the internet.
Am I the only one my age who knows that term?!
Likely.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@handsofqwerty said:
@coliver said:
@handsofqwerty said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@art_of_shred said:
The "internet", aka "cyberspace" was something you read about it Popular Science.....
Popular Science was the one that constantly called it the "Information Superhighway". OMG I can't believe that kids today have never heard that term. It was so common back then.
What are you talking about?! I know that term quite well!
I worked in a high school for a bit... In passing I mentioned the information super highway to a group of 8th graders during a lab period... they all looked at me with dumbfound expressions... I had to clarify that I was talking about the internet.
Am I the only one my age who knows that term?!
Likely.
I remember hearing that term all the time in the 90s. Very common expression.
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I have not heard the term in a very, very long time. I had totally forgotten about that.
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Access the "Information Superhighway" on your Apple II GS, apparently.
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I love those old computer television shows, it's less amazing how old the computers are and more amazing how weird the people are who are talking about computers.
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Nice. It's like being back in class in 1992.
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@StrongBad said:
Nice. It's like being back in class in 1992.
Year one... Hmmm I may have played an educational game a couple of time that year on 286 possibly 386 machines... I'm not really sure. I don't remember much of my computer education until about year 4 or 5.
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We had Apple II-C's in 1st grade; one in each classroom. Math Blaster and Oregon Trail. Oh, yeah. I remember that we even sat through a demo in Art class at one point, where we got to see a drawing tablet used to scrawl free-hand on the computer. Basically, it was a track pad that used a stylus. Remember doing that on a PDA, where you could enter "handwritten" notes? lol
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Oregon Trail is now available to play, free online from the Internet Archive.
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You have died of dysentery.
