“By making our entire front page personalizable … we feel that we have set ourselves apart by integrating what the user wants.”
Joe Kraus, senior vice president and cofounder of overvalued Web portal Excite, the market leader in me-too-ism, Wired News, 17 April 1998
“I have yet to pinpoint exactly what that particular problem was. Probably some type of hardware or software or combination of that type of problem.”
Frank Ianna, AT&T’s executive vice president of network and computing services, reassuring Ma Bell’s frame relay customers that the company really has a grip on what caused a 20-hour breakdown in service, conference call transcript, 14 April 1998
“HTML text is really a catastrophe. It’s perfect for information delivery, but for actual design it’s terrible for designers.”
Halle Winkler, a San Francisco-based designer, reminding us that design isn’t about communication, it’s about design, New York Times CyberTimes, 15 April 1998
“You need to build a system that is futureproof.”
Tim Berners-Lee, father of the Web, sticking his neck out for applications that use the Extensible Markup Language, Wired News, 15 April 1998
“I really enjoy working on the Internet because you can have a lot of contact with your readers.”
Jill Stempel, author of the CyberSleaze gossip column on Adam Curry’s Metaverse, on the virtues of virtual fame, Chicago Tribune, 15 April 1998
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