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.
Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems just as it is a tool for making money finding lost relatives receiving medical advice or come to that trading instructions for making bombs.
Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
The Internets been so great and its so nice to have fans do nice elaborate websites but I think the down side is some of the things… for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isnt true or to see pictures that arent really me or for them to be able to sell these things thats one of the down sides I think.
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away… it was already here. I just wasnt aware of it yet.
Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos two hours later your fingers are yellow and youre no longer hungry but you havent been nourished.
A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?
Look at growth look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. Its all really good so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
Today is a… digital incarnation of Oz – the Internet – we are a motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows learning from each other making and taking responsibility for our decisions and having fun as we skip down the yellow brick road of investing together!
It shouldnt be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all it was designed to withstand nuclear war not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.
The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not through the [Communications Decency Act] interrupt that conversation…. As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion…. The government therefore implicitly asks this court to limit both the amount of speech on the Internet and the availability of that speech. This argument is profoundly repugnant to First Amendment principles.
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.
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They dont care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
The Internet is not just one thing its a collection of things – of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.
URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990s.
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems just as it is a tool for making money finding lost relatives receiving medical advice or come to that trading instructions for making bombs.
The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You cant step on it. You cant go around it. Youve got to get through it.
Surfing on the Internet is like sex; everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet its a lot more.
The Net is a waste of time and thats exactly whats right about it.
Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
Were making a major move of the Internet and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.
The Internets been so great and its so nice to have fans do nice elaborate websites but I think the down side is some of the things… for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isnt true or to see pictures that arent really me or for them to be able to sell these things thats one of the down sides I think.
I get Canadian porno – thats the extent of satellite service and Internet in my house.
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.
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away… it was already here. I just wasnt aware of it yet.
Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos two hours later your fingers are yellow and youre no longer hungry but you havent been nourished.
A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?
Its [the internet] like the flu – it just spreads like crazy.
Look at growth look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. Its all really good so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
Weve heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now thanks to the Internet we know this is not true.
Today is a… digital incarnation of Oz – the Internet – we are a motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows learning from each other making and taking responsibility for our decisions and having fun as we skip down the yellow brick road of investing together!
It shouldnt be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all it was designed to withstand nuclear war not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.
The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not through the [Communications Decency Act] interrupt that conversation…. As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion…. The government therefore implicitly asks this court to limit both the amount of speech on the Internet and the availability of that speech. This argument is profoundly repugnant to First Amendment principles.