RocketRanger
Well-Known Member
OK, I'm forced to comment on this song since it triggered a life and World-changing event for me in the mid-1990s.
In 1995, I was a software developer at "The Phone Company" (a.k.a. USWest). Back then The Phone Company was this huge all-invasive, all-knowing entity with control over everything. Because of this, my employer wanted to stay on top of any new technology related to communications and computer applications. As a result, we had 1st class Internet connectivity which we used mostly for a relatively new business communication method called "e-mail".
One day I was sitting in my cube and a couple of my coworkers came over and were VERY excited about something they had just loaded onto their desktop computers. It was something called Mosaic web browser. As tech staff, we were all encouraged to explore this new thing called the "Information SuperHighway" and I had heard of this new thing called the "World Wide Web" but didn't really know what it was about. My coworkers said that the WWW and browsers were going to change the world and I brushed it off as just the latest hype and a fad that would soon pass. But they insisted that I try this Mosaic web browser so I agreed and loaded it. "So now what do I do with it?" I asked. Type in something you want to know about. Well what does that mean? So I thought about it and believed I came up with a test that Mosaic would surely fail. When I was in jr high school in the early 1970s, there was a popular song on the radio titled "Long Cool Woman In a Black Dress" by The Hollies that I could never quite understand all the words to. This was totally unknown information at that time with no easy way to get an answer for. So I typed into the search bar "Long Cool Woman song lyric", and after a few seconds the browser started displaying: "Saturday night I was downtown. Working for the FBI. Sitting in a nest of bad men. Whiskey bottles piling high..."
I was STUNNED! The long-sought unknown knowledge was laid bare right before me on my computer display! Something that I thought was impossible to know had been found in a matter of seconds! At that instant, I knew for 100% positive that this Internet thing was going to literally change the World in an all encompassing way!
