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.
Internet Quotes
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.
And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing. (“Dilbert”)
The Internet is run by a guy named Heisenberg, and his principles are uncertain.
When the yearning for human flesh has come to an end, what will remain? Mind may continue, uploaded into the Net, suspended in an ecology of voltage as ambitiously capable of self-sustenance as was that of its carbon-based forebears. It’s not a matter of embracing this process. It has already embraced us and may, in […]
What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a ‘modem’, can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo.
Women have already achieved great strides in the predominantly male world of cyberspace. Only as they continue to not only create a place for women on the Internet but actively enter predominantly male newsgroups, on-line services, and the World Wide Web can we expect to see the climate of the Internet become more open.
Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
By the way, we rank 10th amongst the industrialized world in broadband technology and its availability. That’s not good enough for America. Tenth is 10 spots too low as far as I’m concerned. (Minneapolis, Minn., April 26, 2004
