Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.
Internet Quotes
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks.
People talk about an Internet community, but that’s not a community to my mind. Community doesn’t happen until you smell people.
There is a clear need for greater involvement of women in the development of the Internet, not only for their own personal development, but also to mold an evolving, and promising medium with gender sensitivity. Partnerships need to be developed among the stakeholders – users and developers alike – to bring about a truly ‘gendered’ […]
The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back. I don’t need jackhammers and atom bomb to get in when I can walk through the door.
Enthusiasm for a medium that keeps you away from human beings strikes me as worrying. That you would rather live in an unreal time and space, with unreal people who don’t even give their names – you can say what you like, you can be whoever you like – means that people aren’t anyone, they […]
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a “fix” of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine.
