#738 Let me bore you to sleep - I KEPT FALLING ASLEEP - Jason Newland (29th September 2021)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland and this is let me bore you to sleep. Please only listen, only listen when you can safely close your eyes. A little bit tired.

I think, I think, I think I might start trying to make these recordings a little bit earlier in the day because doing them late at night, I'm sorry I fell asleep then, doing it late at night, um just a tad tired, a tad, just a tad, just a little, a little bit of a little titty tired, you know, not, not hugely tired but a little bit, just a little bit.

So yeah, today's, it's been, it's been all right, um this is the fourth recording of the day, so I'm kind of a little bit behind what I normally, well, well four is, damn it, four is pretty good in a day really, um considering each one's at eight hours, two hours work each, it's four, it's eight hours of, uh, of, uh, I don't want to use the word work but time, time, time, time, time. So, so far today I've had 25,000 downloads but yesterday I broke my record, I had 20, just under 28,000.

So yeah, it's all gone wrong now, nearly 20 out now, and now it's only 25. It's all gone wrong, where did I go wrong? It's going down now, it's kind of funny though because the first of, because was it the, it's the 29th today, so tomorrow is the last day of the month, the first day of the month I had 7,237 downloads. So I didn't, I didn't make any recordings pretty much for the first part of the month, and then on six I had, so I was kind of ranging eight, yeah about eight up to nine thousand for the first week per day, and then I started making a couple of recordings, or one recording a day, and I was getting 12, 15, 16, whatever.

And then since the 20th of September, apart from one day, it's been above 18. In fact one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven out of the last nine days there's been over 20,000. One of the days was 18 and a half, and one was 13 and a half, so yeah I'm quite pleased, but I'm just a bit tired, it seems like, it's almost like it's turning into a job, and I don't want that, it has to be fun man, it has to be fun, if it ain't fun I ain't gonna want to do it, I ain't gonna want to do it, it has to be fun.

So yeah that's all right, last 30 days 434,000 downloads, yay! I'm gonna stop talking about the stats now, that's it. I wonder, you know I find strange, I don't know why, but I advertise my website on every single recording, you know right at the beginning, hello welcome to jasonnewland. com, yeah I don't get, I don't really get a lot of people visiting my website, really, I mean I think you'd be surprised at how little I actually get, how many little visits I actually get, I mean really really low, I mean I don't know why, it's embarrassing, it's an embarrassingly low number compared to the amount of downloads I get, and people that listen to my recordings, but the people, the amount of people that actually listen, or that actually visit my website, you wanna know, should I tell you?

This year so far, bearing in mind it's the end of September, 8189 visits to my website, embarrassing, I don't know why I'm telling you, I like to be open, I like to tell you what's going on, and you know, I don't see the point in just telling you, being, I think they call the word cherry picking, cherry picking the information I give you, just tell you the bits that make me, maybe look in a more positive light, that's why I tell you about the constipation and most of the other stuff in my life, none of

it makes me look particularly good does it, but 8189, it's just rubbish, it's like, when you think how much that costs me, for the website, it's $30, $30 a month for the website, so it's $360, so I've paid, yeah, let's say $300, okay, what was it, nine months, so $270 I've paid for 8189 visits, you know what I mean, yeah, I don't know, let's see the last month, the last 30 days, 980, which works out about right, doesn't it, like a thousand a month, nine months, it's like nine thousand or whatever, so it's just, I

don't understand it really, I kind of do, I mean my website isn't, it's, you know, it's not that exciting, you know, when you go on there, it's not going to make rainbows squirt out your nipples, you know, it's not that phenomenal, it's just a website, but you know, it's just an okay website actually, I think, generally, let me go to it, I suppose, I mean, it's a little bit out of, it's not up to date, the most recent recordings was the 25th of September, so I'm a few days out, okay, okay, but it's, I'm, I

am honest, I don't know why I'm laughing, I'm struggling a little bit keeping up, with all of the stuff that goes into what I do, I haven't shared a recording for ages on Facebook, I should be doing that every day, every time I do a recording, I should be sharing it on Facebook, you know, I mean, let's face it, if I hadn't, in the early days, if I hadn't shared my videos, and my podcast, and on Facebook, I don't know, I don't know, whether it made a difference, but I think it would have done, I'm

sure a lot of people in the early days came from Facebook, but then one of the problems with Facebook, or one of the, the whole idea of sharing something on Facebook, this is based on my marketing knowledge, based basically on watching videos on YouTube really, but the idea behind it, is you share your YouTube video on Facebook, or your podcast on Facebook, or your new book, or whatever it is you're doing, the idea is that they then, whoever watched, your friends would then share it, and paste it on their own page, share it on their

own page, which then reaches a whole new audience, of potentially, you know, 5,000 people, I guess, and then someone on there, maybe a couple would share on their page, so, you know, you're, instead of just, I think I've got 4,000, 3,800, or whatever, friends on my, my normal Facebook page, so that's the limit of the amount that's going to see it, because no one ever shares anything really, hardly anybody shares any of my posts, which means it's being, they're being seen by the same people, every time, and most of those people, use podcasts anyway, to

listen, you know, use Spotify, or iTunes, iTunes, or Apple podcast, Castbox, Google, trying to think of some, but yeah, there's quite a few, so they're probably just, those that get updated when a recording's updated, they'll get that from, via their app, probably on the phone, or their tablet, so, in a way, sharing on Facebook doesn't really seem to do anything, because I've not shared anything on Facebook, for a few days, and I didn't share anything on Facebook, probably for nearly a week before that, and it's made no difference to the, you know, the audience, and

then I start to think, well, is it worth me even having a website, you know, it's, it'd be very difficult to start to, to move back, from having a website, I haven't had one for such a long time, you know, 20, not this particular website, but just haven't had websites, generally, since 2000, it'd be very, I just wouldn't, it wouldn't feel right not to have a website, and I know that websites are becoming less used, apart from those that, you know, maybe that sell stuff like Amazon, and eBay, I've not been on eBay for about

10 years, but I imagine it's still around, do you remember when eBay was like, the most popular website, pretty much, it was hugely popular, it was before Facebook, wasn't it, let me have a look, I think it was, you know, eBay, I remember buying stuff on there, eBay, eBay started in 1995, so you had eBay, 1995, wow, 1990, you know what I don't understand, like, it's always started in 1995, we didn't have internet in this country in 1995, there was no internet, there might have been intranet, you know, where people, offices, they shared stuff between

the computers, you know, which was kind of an internal internet, and places, I imagine, still have that, in big businesses and stuff, but the internet, I didn't hear about the internet until late 90s, so when did it start being used in the UK, the internet, so it says here, in 2003, 20 years after it was first born, nearly half of the UK residents has access to the internet, 20 years, are you joking me, 1983, 1983, yeah, shut up, and I was like, yeah, but the internet was used, it was made in the UK, and it

was used for sending documents and stuff, yeah, fair enough, but then you're basically saying, when you say that is, that fax machines were part of the internet, the, what would they call them, not text, I forget what it's called, but you used to have to send documents, and this is all via the telephone, via a phone line, which is what the internet was, isn't it, isn't it, so, yeah, technically, yeah, 1983, there was no internet, you know, the make out, yeah, 20 years, no, there wasn't, why are you lying, it might have been created, it

might have been, I don't know, eventually, and it kind of looked, this dial up internet access was first introduced in the UK by PIPX in March 1992, having been established during 1991 as the UK's first commercial internet provider, okay, hands up, not the liars, but you know, honest people, hands up if you live in the UK, and, no, that's not the question, that's not the question, wait, wait, wait, hands up if you live in the UK and you remember the internet being around in 1991 or 92, okay, come on, hands up everyone, none, apart from

the liars, so, when did the public first have access to the internet?

Again, let's say 1991, the public had use of the World Wide Web, which is a function we use to browse websites, there, there, there, there, yeah, by 2003, 20 years after it was first born, nearly half of the UK residents, okay, fair enough, by 2003, I imagine that it's true, but we were still doing dial-up, weren't we, were we still doing dial-up in 2003?

Yes, yes, I, I don't get it, because, admittedly, I wasn't into computers and I didn't work in an office in the early 90s, oh, ooh, so, the internet, the first node is connected to the internet's military ancestry in 1969, okay, shut up, yes, the internet's been around before I was born, yeah, okay, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, 1995, 90, I mean, it was a very different thing back then, it wasn't what we know as the internet, 1993, it introduces propriety HTML tags and more for sophisticated image capability, capabilities, the browser is a massive success, so

here we go, in 1993, okay, 1969, 79, 89, so 24 years after the internet apparently was first, you know, kind of thought of, they introduce the first web browser called Mosaic, which I actually seem to remember for some reason, so what it meant is you could have images and make, have more control of what was on the screen, because I guess before that it's probably just text, so apparently the browser is a massive success and businesses start to notice the web's potential, and then goes Andreessen, who created Mosaic, then developed the Netscape web browser, anyone

remember Netscape?

I do, wow, because this was still going, this was still available, still online, when I first got involved in late 90s, I say get involved, I always used to go online, 1994, internet magazine launches, really? I'd never even heard of the internet, and here's why, I'm just looking at the prices, 1994, it reports, internet magazine reports on London's first cyber cafe and reviews 100 websites, it's billed as the most extensive list of websites ever to appear in a magazine, 100 websites, wow, get this, right, this is 1994, at 28.

8 kbps, modem cost £399 plus VAT, there's the little nib nub there, people couldn't afford to use it, and I think it's one of those things, I imagine, I imagine the telephone had this sort of similar problem, is when the phone was first invented, it was a very expensive process, I imagine, to produce all of the equipment and it was useless without another person having a phone, I mean one person having a phone and no one else, I mean, you might as well use it as a hat, it's of no use is it, but if

it's an expensive thing, and a lot of people back then would have thought it was a pile of junk and pointless, and if God wanted us to talk to each other from miles away, he would have given us bigger mouths, or whatever, you know how people used to be, if God wanted us to fly, he would have given us propellers, or whatever, I can't remember the exact phrasing, oh Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web, is renamed Yahoo in 94, and receives 100,000 visits, so 1994 right, when there was only about three websites

on the internet, they were still getting 100,000 visits, I get 9000 in the whole year so far, they get 100,000, and there's probably less websites than I've got web pages back then, that's probably not true at all, sounds reasonable, probably not true, 100,000 visits, I think I remember Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web, because it was still there, no it was called Yahoo wasn't it, of course it was, which probably was the first really expensive internet thing, it was worth billions wasn't it, and now it's worth about 43 pence, in 1995 it

begins displaying adverts, of course it does, yep, so people couldn't afford it, which meant, you know, in order to build websites you'd need to have a modem, not totally true actually, you can build websites, but you have to get them onto the internet, you'd need a modem, because you can build websites offline, with the HTML code which they had, you know it's not HTML anyway, they got that wrong, because in 95 it was called HTM, HTM, they changed it to HTML later, haha I know this, because I remember, so there, 95, Digital Equipment Corporation's Research

Lab, Launches search engine AltaVista, wow, that's a weird noise, does anyone remember that, AltaVista, come on, wiggle your toes if you remember, AltaVista, AltaVista, and it says that this is the claim of AltaVista search engine, it can store and index the HTML from every internet page, and also introduces the first multilingual search, so you could search in different languages, in 1995, Jeff Bezos launches Amazon.com, an online bookseller that pioneers e-commerce, oh I wonder how he got on, 1995, eBay is launched to enable internet users to trade with each other, again very specialized, and not only

would you, you know, you need to be specialized in that, you also need to be able to afford to get a whatsit to connect to the internet, so the browser wars begin, in 1996, Microsoft sees the internet as a threat, wow, that's interesting, and integrates Internet Explorer with Windows, Netscape and Microsoft go head to head, intensively developing the Internet Explorer, developing and releasing upgrades to their browsers, 96, Macromedia Flash 1.

0 launches to add interactive animations to web pages, early adopters include Disney and MSN, now when I first started getting into the internet, I used to go to an internet cafe, near where I lived, and I used to love looking at Disney, and I mean everything was slow, the internet was slow back then, it was dial up, even the internet cafes were dial up, I don't know if all of them were, but you know this whole broadband, there was a version of broadband that was around in the middle 90s, or the late 90s or something,

because I remember a friend of mine used to sell it, he tried to explain it to me once and I just didn't understand, I just wasn't listening really, 1998 Google arrives, that's when I started to notice the internet, that's when I think people in this country started to use the internet, 89, 98, 99, 2000, that's when it really kind of came into its own, became a part of society, kind of, so Google arrives, it pioneers a ranking system that uses links to assess a website's popularity, Google's simple design is soothing, while existing search engines cram

their pages with animated adverts, it's true, that is very true, Google was always very simple, although they do go, they went through a period when they were constantly putting images celebrating some famous person or whatever, I don't know if they do that anymore, so I remember the search engines, you know, because there's quite a few around back then, there is Duck, Ducky, Ask Jeeves, whatever ones, I can't remember the names, there's so many, there's a lot, and some of them would be a mixture between a search engine and a directory, so there'd be the search

engine bar, then underneath you could search by topic, by category, which I quite liked, but very, a very busy page, very busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, so 1999, Sean Fanning launches Napster, so I never understood how all that stuff worked, so I didn't get involved, the peer-to-peer software enables internet users to swap mp3 music files stored on the computers, and to find each other through a central directory, record labels are furious, and by July 2001, they had effective, they stopped Napster from operating, now Napster opened up the doors to Torrents, which is basically the exact

same thing as what Napster did, you share what's on your, you choose what you share, but you share from your own hard drive to other people via the internet, so that they can download what's on your hard drive, but only the files that you choose, so let's say if you got, I don't know, a documentary about Evel Knievel, and you decide you want to share that, but that's all you want to share, so you'd have a file with that in, and that would be it, and as long as your computer was on, and you connected

to the internet, anyone in the world with that link, could download that file from your pc, which meant that more people getting connected, things like tv shows, movies, music, the thing that Napster kind of stopped from doing, and became norm for years, and years, and years, using Torrents, now I don't know when Torrents started, I only discovered them probably about 2008, so I, you know, I might have been, I think I was probably a bit late coming to the, you know, getting to the party, they've been around a while, in fact there was a time

I used a very similar kind of system, but it wasn't for me to download anything, it was this service, where you'd, it's a software, you download it to your pc, and then you choose a file, and you go onto their website, and you choose what files you want to share with your customers, it provides you with a link, you stick that link on your website, and then people could download that link, or they could, I think, probably play it live, stream it, you know, this is one of the earlier, earlier versions of streaming, and wow,

it's amazing, isn't it, so that's very exciting, oh, so the, synapse that has gone, the dot-com bust in 2000, after several years of ventular, venture capitalists throwing money at proposals with internet on the cover, it all starts unraveling, as many of these businesses fail to find a market, and others realize they don't have a business plan, I remember that, 2000, again, free online classified services, of service Craiglist, expands outside of San Francisco in a move that was called one of the 10 most influential moments of the decade, by really, by the International Academy of Digital

Arts and Sciences in 2009, all right, the move had a huge impact on newspaper publishers everywhere, uh, who had previously built a business partly on classified advertising, okay, so what they're saying, I guess, is Craiglist took away business from these little newspapers, that, you know, the best, I fell asleep while I was talking, then I don't know what I was saying, uh, what else, 2000, Google launches AdWords, a system that enables advertisers to target users, web users with text, again, text adverts, based on what they're searching for, see, I remember this, because I was doing

it, and there was no graphics, really, there was no, now it's film footage and in adverts on the internet, and text adverts are really outdated now, they still exist, but it's very, you know, with the AdWords, with Google, if they still do it, I don't know, I've not really looked, but they'll give you some code, and then they'll just, they'll just play whatever advert is relevant, or that they think is relevant, see, Craigslist wasn't something that we knew about in the UK, it became infamous through, because of some of the things that happened, by the

users of that service, and I mean, we do have a UK Craigslist, but I've never, ever heard anybody ever, in my sort of environment, wherever I've been, even mention Craigslist, so maybe it's interesting, it's an interesting read, to sort of go through there and have a look, which I have done actually, but I don't know, to me, it makes sense to, make use of what, I don't know, I fell asleep again, I keep falling asleep while I'm talking, I'm like, I'm waking up and I'm talking about newspapers and stuff, like what, what am I talking

about newspapers, Craigslist, what am I talking about Craigslist for, I don't understand, I'm confused, Google launches AdWords, okay, I would have done that, what else happened, 2001, 2001, US regulators approved the merger of AOL and Time Warner, all right, so what's that got to do with anything, shareholders of relative upstart AOL, owns 55% of the new company, so AOL started in 1985 and grew its modern internet connection business into one of the world's biggest media corporations, okay, wow, look at this, Wikipedia, a crowd, a crowd-sourced encyclopedia, I have no idea if they spelled that word

right, oops, just banged the microphone, don't you think it's weird that encyclopedia would be spelled, the way it's spelled, I mean how are we supposed to remember AE, is AE, EA, why not just encyclopedia, yeah, I don't know, PE, PE, instead of AE, I'm confused, I'm confused again, help, no, no, no, you stay there, hmm, okay, so Wikipedia launches in 2001, nearly half, in 2003, nearly half of us are connected, UK Telecom's regular off-tell reports that 27% of UK homes have internet access, and 58% have a PC, 58%, 15% use broadband and 92% are satisfied

with their service, so broadband is available, but not to everyone, because not everyone has, um, I don't know what it is, maybe the right cables and stuff, but I don't get a fast broadband, normally from my broadband, yeah, so what was I talking about again, I keep falling asleep, I'm just so tired man, Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook in 2004, again, he might have launched it in 2004, but we didn't hear about it here, until, I'm going to say at least 2005, maybe later, maybe 2006, I say we, I didn't know about it, a photo sharing

website Flickr was born in 2004, wow, it says here in 2005, the internet started to threaten, uh, television and telephone companies threaten, it's not allowed there, that's not fair, so 2005 YouTube launches to enable people to easily publish videos online, within a year, Google acquires YouTube for 1.

65 billion, really, I didn't think it was that early on, I thought it was kind of a few years later, so despite owning it, despite owning its own video site, oh, Google had its own video site, Google videos, oh yeah, I remember that, at the time YouTube users were uploading 65,000 new films, watching 100 million, million clips each day, meanwhile, phone companies are threatened by free internet-based phone calls, Skype enables 2 million calls, Skype enables 2 million calls at any one moment, Skype enables 2 million calls at any one moment, and has a user battle

of 33, 65,000 new films, so meanwhile, phone companies are threatened by free internet-based phone calls, Skype enabled 2 million calls at any one moment, and has a user battle of 33, 65,000 new films, have a look what happens, then 2005, old media has been slow to catch up with the new media, Rupert Bear, it's only Rupert Bear, I mean Rupert Murdoch, News Corp response by an Intermix Media, owner of MySpace, wow, 2005 he bought MySpace for 580 million dollars.

It just shows you that even someone as rich and clever and business savvy as Rupert Murdoch apart from when I do, it's very quiet, so twitter when I sleep again, I find it very easy to drift away into naughty, naughty, naughty land naughty and big ears, doesn't give the exact time zone for when facebook was overtaken by, you know, auntie and uncle when you hear, or don't hear me talking, there's a good chance, a good chance I've drifted back to sleep so instead of fighting it, I might as well just go with the flow and allow my mind, my body to just switch off so I suggest maybe considering doing just that so we're going to go, where are you going to go?

I'm going to go, thank you for listening, remember, quiet, peaceful, calm there you go, peaceful, relaxed, let go