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.
Internet Quotes
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
Some long-ago theorists had expected network linkages to increase information transfer. If it does, it’s buried so deep under layers and layers of misinformation, misinterpretation, slanted views, partial truths, and outright lies that it’s impossible to extract. Rumors, however.
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
It is said that the Internet is the first truly global market place of ideas. I find that a bit depressing realizing that the most traffic in global ideas are spread shots and bjs.
Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker’s game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous-sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.
Goddammit! The world is just filling up with more and more idiots! And the computer is giving them access to the world! They’re spreading their stupidity! At least they were contained before – now they’re on the loose everywhere!
Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it’s also saddled with democracy’s vice – a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that’s worth hearing.
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 wasn’t aware of it yet.
