Author: Matt

“We wanted people to enter this place that we had created and just want to feel it was real.”

Robyn Miller, cocreator of the computer game Myst, on the release of long-delayed sequel Riven, New York Times CyberTimes, 27 October 1997

“We’re trying to raise the bar on interactive entertainment. We’re going to be a one-stop entertainment resource, but we’re going to have a little more fun with it.”

Scott Zakarin, creator of ur-cybersoap The Spot and now president of programming at AOL’s Entertainment Asylum, New York Times CyberTimes, 22 October 1997

“Once a business puts up an Internet store, all it needs are customers.”

Former Netscape CTO Marc Andreessen on his company’s end-to-end enterprise solutions, Netscape.com, 15 October 1997

“Well, I have to say, Lou, what we’re hearing out in the West is a big collective ‘duh!'”

CNN’s chief San Francisco correspondent Greg LeFevre, on Silicon Valley’s reaction to the Department of Justice’s antitrust action against Microsoft, CNN, 20 October 1997

“I’d like to thank everyone involved with the site — which would be me.”

Lance Arthur, whose Glassdog site won for best design, speaking on the collaborative nature of Web publishing at the second annual Cool Site of the Year Awards in San Francisco, 21 October 1997