“There is a huge demand for adult content online. The Internet is totally anonymous, it’s totally interactive, totally impulse-oriented.”
Seth Warshavsky, CEO of online porn purveyor Internet Entertainment Group, Wired News, 29 January 1999
Month: January 1999
SOMETIMES A LOGON IS JUST A LOGON
“It’s like with President Clinton. It depends on how you define ‘access.'”
Steve Dougherty, director of operations for Internet service provider, EarthLink, on the fine print of his company’s promise of “unlimited access,” The New York Times, 27 January 1999
INSUFFICIENT DATA
“I am a senior Microsoft executive. I don’t deny that.”
Microsoft VP Paul Maritz, offering some crumbs of actual information to Department of Justice prosecutor David Boies in the ongoing antitrust trial, San Jose Mercury News, 27 January 1999
WE’RE HERE, WE’RE CLEAR, GET USED TO IT
“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”
Sun CEO Scott McNealy, warming up to argue for the transparent society at the upcoming World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wired News, 26 January 1999
TIME TO GET SCHOOLED
“This is like running the college paper, when everyone read you to find out if class was canceled. It’s been a long time since I’ve found readers so enmeshed in everything that we do.”
Marketwatch.com CEO Larry Kramer, commenting on his readership’s obsessive need to make sure the Internet-stock boom is still in session, The New York Times, 25 January 1999
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