For one, getting advertisters to commit to buys once a year doesn't make much sense for the TV industry, and it certainly doesn't work for the Internet, which doesn't have the same inventory constraints.

FORBES: Yahoo! Gets In Front

"We didn't pay a great deal of attention to the security side of the Internet when it was first being designed because we didn't really know if it would work at all, " Cerf said in the keynote address at Georgia Tech's annual security summit.

FORBES: Made For Hacking

Online books didn't work out too well, but O'Reilly had the idea of putting Internet kiosks in bookstores as a way of promoting the Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog.

FORBES: Calliope's revenge

There were no improvements under the hood (though even the lowly Nokia Lumia 610 was fairly smooth on WP7.5, and still is), no OTA updates, you're stuck with Internet Explorer version 9 instead of the much zippier IE10 and apps created for WP8 won't work -- giving developers very little reason to create new ones for the lame duck OS, or even update existing ones.

ENGADGET: Windows Phone 7.8 hands-on: cosmetically yours Hands-on

Transacting business seamlessly over the Internet means having a decent grasp of how things work, and more importantly, why they don't.

FORBES: Magazine Article

"Don't be afraid to take on a worthwhile cause, "she counseled in an Internet column about balancing motherhood, work and volunteerism.

FORBES: All in the Family

"It is shocking that 16 million people don't have basic skills and there is a lot of work going on to encourage people to use the internet, " she said.

BBC: Millions in UK 'lack basic online skills'