“The great thing about the early-’90s cyberculture was that we got to make it all up.”
Digital visionary (at least when he’s on the requisite hallucinogens) R.U. Sirius, on the challenges of tech journalism, San Francisco Bay Guardian, 5 July 2000
DENIAL .NET: A NEXT-GENERATION WINDOWS SERVICE
“I don’t think anybody can dominate the Internet; I might also argue that nobody really dominates the PC market, but I don’t want to get back into that view of history.”
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, embracing and extending the company’s antitrust legal strategy to its Internet efforts, News.com, 12 July 2000
NAPSTER DOESN’T KILL THE MUSIC INDUSTRY, PEOPLE WITH NAPSTER
“Napster does not copy files. It does not provide the technology for copying files.”
Napster CEO Hank Barry, trying to make his company’s turnkey, robust, end-to-end piracy solutions provision delivery technology seem much more useless than it in fact is, Wired News, 11 July 2000
SO WE’RE DROPPING THE “-QUALITY” PART
“We have high-quality content — we don’t want to throw that away. But we don’t think you can build a business just on the back of that.”
Feed cofounder Steven Johnson, discoursing loftily on the formation of content holding company Automatic Media that merged his site with Suck.com, The Wall Street Journal/MSNBC.com, 10 July 2000
NO SHIRT, NO SHOES, NO PROFIT
“We are still projecting to reach a break-even point in the first quarter of 2002 — but at a much slower investment rate.”
Joe Krakoviak, a spokesman for APB Online, declaring that the news site’s bankruptcy filing will actually help it make money, News.com, 5 July 2000
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