(Women’s) fascination with the communication facilities of Internet has broader relevance too: the communication facilities of Internet can be seen as the virtual translation of more or less traditional feminine concerns of personal contact, sharing and creating community… (Women) do experience the Internet to be dominated by men, but they employ their own tactics for […]
Internet Quotes
Surfing on the Internet is like sex; everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it’s a lot more.
It is in the form of this last activity, the sharing of information, that most of us in recent years have come to experience the changes the Internet has wrought in our daily lives, and in no form more vivid, particularly for scholars and interested amateurs of all kinds, than in the irreducibly social one […]
The number of women is only a fraction of the number of men; women make up only twenty percent of the Internet use. The absence of women is caused by structural and cultural barriers that produce a psychologically valid choice for women not to take part in information technologies.
The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it.
Reading the net is like trying to drink from a firehose. Posting to the net is like shouting at people as they go past on a roller coaster. Archiving the net is like washing toilet paper.
We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation… A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.
The trouble with the Internet is that it’s replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.
Hooked on Internet? Help Is a Just a Click Away.
