Perspectives Sounding Social Network Alarms

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by DAII

Personally, I think he's bitter because he can't keep up with the technology ... see his website ... and control the dialogue ....

I'm the last guy to throw stones... but you've reminded me of a telephone conversation I had with his key IT guy back in the 1990s. We were talking about something else when I suggested that he put the whole AIS stuff up on a web site (and thus I wouldn't have been calling him).

He groaned audibly. Then in a rather condescending manner he told me that they'd have to spend "tens of thousands of dollars" for the web servers and the Internet connection... It was "out of the question," he assured me.

I asked him, "Why don't you just get a web hosting service?" No money upfront and just a monthly fee. It's completely scalable so that you could start small and expand as your needs expanded. He had no idea what I was talking about.

[Apocrypha]

Originally Posted by pelathais

I'm the last guy to throw stones... but you've reminded me of a telephone conversation I had with his key IT guy back in the 1990s. We were talking about something else when I suggested that he put the whole AIS stuff up on a web site (and thus I wouldn't have been calling him).

He groaned audibly. Then in a rather condescending manner he told me that they'd have to spend "tens of thousands of dollars" for the web servers and the Internet connection... It was "out of the question," he assured me.

I asked him, "Why don't you just get a web hosting service?" No money upfront and just a monthly fee. It's completely scalable so that you could start small and expand as your needs expanded. He had no idea what I was talking about.

Thanks, that conversation may be why he hired me and gave me 2 years of free bible college as their first webmaster/it guy

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by Apocrypha

Thanks, that conversation may be why he hired me and gave me 2 years of free bible college as their first webmaster/it guy

We missed each other by that much? LOL.

They had a pretty cool offering in the mag and the other services. I just couldn't believe that I was the only guy in the Oneness world who saw what "http" was going to bring. The "web" was brand spanking new at the time, but there were already a lot of hosting services.