I was in journalism school at the turn of the century. Even saying that is mind blowing. Around the year 2000 is when the internet really started to take off. Lots of the classrooms started to be equipped with hulking PCs. A terminal for every student. This was back when a professor told me that the internet would never hold as much power as print or broadcast journalism. Of course, being internet obsessed I challenged his opinion with mine, ending with saying, “But you’re old and will be dead soon, so it’s likely you’ll never know how wrong you are.” I was told to leave his class. Then I was…
