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.’
Internet Quotes
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.
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
Will the highways on the Internet become more few? (Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000)
URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990’s.
The absence of governmental regulation of Internet content has unquestionably produced a kind of chaos, but as one of plaintiffs’ experts put it with such resonance at the hearing: What achieved success was the very chaos that the Internet is. The strength of the Internet is that chaos. Just as the strength of the Internet […]
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.
