EPIC 2015: The real and the fake

After watching the EPIC 2015 video there was about a 50/50 split in terms of what was accurate information and what was false but served as a satire for the future of the internet and how information is shared. I'm looking at you googlezon.

The video starts our covering the basic foundations of the internet such as Tim Berners-Lee creating the world wide web in 1989 and then that being followed by amazon be founded in 1994. Continuing on following those events were the creation of google in 1998 and blogger in 1999. Moving on into the 21st century friendster was introduced in 2002 along with google's launch of google news that is edited by computers. Other information that fits under the factual category is the creation of Picasa in 2002 by the company LifeScape, which was bought by Google in 2004. Also in 2004 there was the introduction of Gmail and Microsoft's Newsbot.

In the video all of the information talked about up until the creation of gmail and newsbot is factual, however after this point it begins to shift to a false timeline of events as a means to give the viewer a satirical look at the future of news and the internet.

The false information stated was:

• Google Grid
• Googlezon
• MSN buys Newsbotster
• New York Times opts for online paid subscriptions
• Googlezon opens streaming to it's users
• Microsoft and Googlezon compete for the market
• New York Times sues Googlezon
• Supreme court rules in favor of googlezon
• Evolving Personalized Information Construct "EPIC" is created
• New York Times bails on internet subscriptions and prints strictly for the elite and elderly