“It’s a mistake to treat the Internet as an entertainment medium.”
Ed Bennett, former Prodigy executive and godfather of Stim, The Wall Street Journal, 20 July 1998
MY JOB IS TO MAKE IT HARDER
“Most consumers have a hard time differentiating between the browser, the ISP, and the content.”
Jennifer Bailey, Netscape’s senior vice president of marketing for its portal wannabe, Netcenter, News.com, 20 July 1998
THE NETWORK IS THE — OH, WHATEVER
“The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.”
Sun CTO Bill Joy, on the earnings potential of Sun’s new ubiquitous networking technology, Jini, Wired News, 15 July 1998
NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL “GRACEFULLY DEGRADING”
“Maybe the band and I could just walk kind of herky-jerky in the club, and shuffle our feet a bit, to give the live audience the Internet experience.”
Victoria Williams, a performer scheduled to sing at next week’s Intel New York Music Festival, on overcoming Net broadcast problems caused by limited bandwidth, The New York Times, 16 July 1998
OR SHOULD THAT BE “IRONIC”?
“Those of us who like postmodern ironic humor really appreciate the fact that the most successful e-commerce is the product that this medium was supposed to eliminate.”
Rick Ayre, a vice president at Amazon.com, on how, like, it’s all cool and junk that his company uses a Third Wave technology to sell a Second Wave product, The Washington Post, 10 July 1998
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