The Internet is as persistent as it is potent, an indelible and uncontainable presence in the culture. In fact, the Internet isn’t separate from the culture at all; it “is” the culture. All the trash, flotsam and spillage of our society gets its moment there, where the tiniest obsession has its spot on the shelf, […]
Internet Quotes
It is sometimes said that enough monkeys typing on enough typewriters will, given enough time, produce the entire works of Shakespeare. The usenet has demonstrated conclusively that this is not so.
That is one of the Laws of Usenet, up there with ‘You can tell when a Usenet discussion is getting old when someone drags out Hitler and the Nazis.’
The Internet is nothing but a crudely patched-together digital misappropriation of long-established intellectual property of the city of New York.
Think of Usenet as a large house with many rooms. In one room they’re discussing Rilke; in the next they’re snorting nitrous and setting fire to the couch.
Crossposting isn’t inherently evil, in the same sense that necrophilia doesn’t really hurt anybody. One wonders only whether it’s appropriate to the occasion.
It’s been my policy to view the Internet not as an ‘information highway,’ but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
The best way to get information on Usenet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong information.
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
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.
