Month: June 1999

“The Internet is only about 20 percent invented.”

Former Disney Internet executive Jake Winebaum, on why he decided to flee the Mouse House and go startup, ZDNN, 7 June 1999

“We’ve invested a great deal in working with software developers and helping them to build their applications in ways that take advantage of our innovations.”

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, offering testimony in yet another trial, explaining how, no, really, developers are taking advantage of his company, not the other way around, Wired News, 8 June 1999

“You’d have to be crazy not to recognize that business and finance are an integral part of the Internet, of the Wired culture.”

Wired editor-in-chief Katrina Heron, coming to the realization a few years too late that there’s gold in them thar TCP/IP stacks, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 1999

“The real losers are likely to be the citizens of Portland and Multnomah County. This decision can only have the potential to delay and reduce the new services that companies like AT&T will be able to offer them.”

Mark Rosenblum, AT&T’s VP of law, managing to insult his customer base in threatening to take his company’s broadband network and go home, News.com, 4 June 1999

“For however long it lasts, all companies … that have businesses are worthless against an Internet piece of paper.”

Barry Diller, on how the day-trader fueled valuations of Internet stocks make it difficult for him to snap up Net companies on the cheap, News.com, 3 June 1999