internet already exist for ten years

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by Lunamoon, Oct 9, 2005.

  1. Lunamoon

    Lunamoon Private E-2

    Why is it that internet already exist for ten years now ,
    but nobody has figured out yet how to make money on it?
    Is it a democratic medium or something?
     
    Lunamoon, Oct 9, 2005
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  2. earlthemailman

    earlthemailman Corporal

    What are you talking about?

    I make money on the internet all the time.

    I am an e-pimp. werd.
     
    earlthemailman, Oct 9, 2005
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  3. G.T.

    G.T. R.I.P February 4, 2007. You will be missed.

    Seen the price for Google stock lately? :D

    Lots of companies make money "on" or with the internet. But yes, it was designed to be a broad based basically free medium. Although "free" is relative. Either fee-based (like part of what you pay your ISP) or advertising revenue based funds basically pays for it.
     
    G.T., Oct 9, 2005
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  4. evilevets

    evilevets Sergeant Major

    First of all, the Internet (spelled with a capital I, by the way) has been around for a lot longer than 10 years.

    Second of all, with that signature, it would appear you know quite well how to make money on the Internet.


    Go somewhere else.



    -Steve
     
    evilevets, Oct 9, 2005
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  5. G.T.

    G.T. R.I.P February 4, 2007. You will be missed.


    LOL. I should have read his signature before wasting a serious answer.
     
    G.T., Oct 9, 2005
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  6. star17

    star17 MajorGeek

    The sig is useless...it's been altered; piggybacking off MG is not in a users' best interest ;)
     
    star17, Oct 9, 2005
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  7. Lunamoon

    Lunamoon Private E-2

    What I mean is that it's not mass consumerism any more. I mean the other media like the movies made a ton of money cuz you bought a ticket.
    Google is not really selling anything. I know they make a lot of money with the services they are offering, bu still.
    Besides people dowload somuch that ist has become a problem for the mainstream industry.
     
    Lunamoon, Oct 10, 2005
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  8. Lunamoon

    Lunamoon Private E-2

    What do you do as an e pimp?
     
    Lunamoon, Oct 10, 2005
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  9. quirk

    quirk Corporal

    telecommunications companies make fortunes, and just because the dot-com era is thankfully over doesn't mean that services aren't still being sold.
    I'm an e-pimp too!
    Everyone- Please Ignore My Posts
    seriously...... ;)
     
    quirk, Oct 10, 2005
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  10. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    I'd say completly the opposite, serious money is being made in e-consumerism opposed to the highstreet/shoping malls, the current trend for online shopping is growing at a massive rate, just take eBay, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple ( iTunes ), Google ( I included Google as they as you said yourself selling services, like Advertising and corporate search hardware/software is selling a product ) and no end of retailers have online shopping arms to augment their analogue stores.

    great example.... Skype a media company thats only 2yrs old, just sold to eBay for $2.6 billion.... I'd say a very lucrative medium is the internet :)

    You only have notice that the older media companies are now slowly embracing the internet as a new source of revenue, as their older forms are slowly dieing, in this age we have no need to buy a ticket, wait in line, be told it's sold out....
     
    DavidGP, Oct 10, 2005
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  11. dperino

    dperino Capt. Caveman

    It's Al Gore's fault. After all, he invented the the internet 10 years ago. ;)




    I guess the stuff we were doing 30 years ago was something completely different. Must have been "Pre-Internet" :D
     
    dperino, Oct 10, 2005
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