“Our point is that you don’t need any standards. Why do you need a standard? It works fine the way it is.”
Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale, interviewed in Infoworld, 16 June 1997
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GOODBYE, PINK SLIP – HELLO, PINK NEGLIGÉE
“The new pragmatism means employees and companies, like lovers who want to remain friends after breaking up, tell each other nicely when it’s no longer working out.”
Miranda Ewell, writing in the San Jose Mercury News, 17 June 1997
LIVE! NET! GIRLS!
“Computers used to be a geeky thing, but these days a lot of college girls are buying computers and surfing the net. It’s real fun.”
Self-described “otaku” Masakazu Kobayashi, Wall Street Journal, page R14, 16 June 1997
SILLY WAXMAN, PORN IS FOR KIDS
“The Internet is a revolutionary means for displaying sexually explicit, patently offensive material to children in the privacy of their own homes.”
Deputy Solicitor General Seth Waxman arguing for the government in Reno v. ACLU, New York Times, 16 June 1997
THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD
“The Net used to be only really a domain for hackers, scientists, and Unix-heads.”
Marc Andreessen, Netscape DevCon, 11 June 1997
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