“Web content in the year 2001 is the least competitive industry since Special Education. What else are you going to read? GettingIt? Requestline? The Finger?”
The Sucksters, founding fathers of Web punditry, sputtering in disbelief — and proving the Net’s continuing need of them — after their extensive street cred failed to extend their line of credit, Suck.com, 8 June 2001
“The Postal Service is, and always has been, one of the most high-tech companies in the world.”
USPS spokeswoman Susan Brennan, on the government agency’s use of sophisticated technology to lose ever greater volumes of paper mail, Wired News, 7 June 2001
“The browser is a crown jewel. However, six months from now, you won’t consider Netscape to be a browser company.”
Netscape president Jim Bankoff, on the once-storied browser company’s disclaim to fame, San Jose Mercury News, 5 June 2001
“BT does not have a social-services remit to make broadband Britain work. It cannot work until people realize that the Internet is not for free.”
BT chairman Christopher Bland, on the government-sanctioned U.K. phone monopoly’s lack of obligations to society, The Sunday Times, 3 June 2001
“We think the marketer’s interest in targeting is equal to the user’s interest in relevance.”
Ted Meisel, CEO of pay-to-play search engine GoTo.com, on the virtues of Web payola, The New York Times, 4 June 2001
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