“While there have been meetings with America Online in the recent past, there is no specific proposal currently under discussion between AT&T and AOL.”
AT&T, making an almost Clintonian quasi-denial in a prepared statement responding to suggestions that it’s been less than faithful to its cable-modem partner Excite@Home, MSNBC, 9 August 1999
“There’s going to be a Net inside my head and one personality is going to want to keep secrets from another.”
Open-source hacktivist Hugh Daniels, giving a very, very personal vision of the Internet at the Chaos Computer Camp outside Berlin, Wired News, 9 August 1999
“The consumer doesn’t care. Let’s not pretend that when we worship at the altar of open standards millions of average consumers are lined up behind us.”
Jupiter Communications analyst Lucas Graves, pointing out that the emperor has no standards, News.com, 6 August 1999
“In the old days you just had to yell out, ‘Zog, it’s me,’ and he would let you into the cave without clubbing you. Now you need all these passwords to get access anywhere.”
Irving Biederman, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Southern California, proposing an old-media alternative to modern computer security schemes, The New York Times, 5 August 1999
“Letting people who are not online access the Internet … is a wonderful opportunity.”
Gene Lockhart, AT&T’s president of consumer services, on a deal with Sega to let the great unwired surf to their hearts’ content — as soon as they work out a few technical problems on how to connect to the Net without getting online, ZDNN, 4 August 1999
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