Elon Musk had anticipated everything: here is how he described the internet of the future… in 1998!

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In 1998, the internet had only 147 million users worldwide. YouTube did not exist and Netflix, if it existed at all, only rented DVDs. However, Elon Musk already had a very clear vision of what the internet would become later. Recently, the Tesla boss shared an excerpt from an interview he gave to CBS Sunday Morning in 1998, when he was only 27 years old.

In this interview, Musk describes the future of the internet as “the superset of all media.” “It’s the alpha and omega of media. “Print, radio, and television, all media, will merge into the internet,” he explained. Elon Musk also anticipated how the internet would change the way we consume media content. “The internet is the first intelligent two-way communication medium. It allows consumers to choose what they want to see, when they want to see it, whether it’s on the radio, in print, or on television. I think it’s going to revolutionize all traditional media,” he also explained. Subscribe to Lemon Squeezer

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In his recent post on the social network that's because they thought I was crazy for stating this super obvious prediction.”

Co-founder of Zip2

Elon Musk was interviewed as the co-founder of Zip2. This is a startup created by Elon Musk, his brother Kimbal and Greg Kouri in 1995. This company developed an urban guide on the internet with maps and yellow pages. And it targeted the media. In 2002, Zip2 was bought by Conpaq and was integrated into Altavista.

Otherwise, we recall that it was only in 1999 that Elon Musk co-founded the online bank “X.com”, which then merged with another company to form PayPal. As for SpaceX, it was founded in 2002. And Elon Musk only became CEO of Tesla in 2008.

Today, in addition to having bought the social network X, Elon Musk has also created the artificial intelligence laboratory xAI, which is developing a competitor to ChatGPT. And soon, the billionaire will co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, a new presidential commission in the new Trump administration.

• A 1998 interview with Elon Musk recently resurfaced
• In it, Musk accurately predicted how the internet would transform media
• At the time, Musk was just co-founding Zip2, a startup he founded before X.com (which became PayPal)

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