Month: September 1997

“We’re taking the ‘Challenger Strategy’: it will either be a spectacular success or a spectacular failure.”

David Carlick, president of the overhyped and underfunded ad-targeting startup PowerAgent, Advertising Age, 15 September 1997

“We are looking for better compatibility across browsers and other platforms.”

Tim Sinclair, editor-in-chief of http://www.microsoft.com, on Microsoft’s decision to ban applets from its Web site, ZDNN, 12 September 1997

“Print’s a lot like life right now: you die once. You can reread it again, but Hamlet’s still dead on the stage at the very end.”

J. Yellowlees Douglas, author of hypertext fiction I Have Said Nothing, on the fallibility of dead-tree literature, New York Times CyberTimes, 11 September 1997

“We want our God-given 90 percent market share, and we will exploit every friggin’ distribution channel to get it.”

Netscape’s VP of sales and marketing Mike Homer, Wired News, 10 September 1997

“The past year marked the transformation of Internet online services into a mass market medium. “

AOL CEO Steve Case, on his service’s acquisitive menage à trois with WorldCom and CompuServe, News.com, 8 September 1997