Friday, March 28, 2014
Cyberspace
Cyberspace. The Internet. The Information Superhighway. The World Wide Web. Not the same but close enough, which observations resonant with you?
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the World Wide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page. ~Bill Clinton, 1996
The World Wide Web where there's so much juxtaposition of the good stuff and the not-so-good stuff and flat-out-wrong stuff or deliberate misinformation or plain ignorance. ~Vinton Cerf
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks. ~Author Unknown
In cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. ~John Perry Barlow
National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway. ~Tim May
The Internet isn't free. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism. ~Brad Shapcott
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. ~Robert Wilensky, 1996
You can't take something off the Internet - it's like taking pee out of a pool. ~Author Unknown
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. ~Penn Jillett
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand. ~Eric Schmidt
The Net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it. ~John Gilmore, 1993
The Internet interprets the US Congress as system damage and routes around it. ~Jeanne DeVoto
No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't. ~Don Rittner
The greatest thing about the internet is that you can quote something and just totally make up the source. ~Benjamin Franklin
Monday, March 24, 2014
We're Back to Words Again
The wonderful camera that has entertained us all for the last few months has returned to its rightful owner. This means I must once again consider the continuing fate of this misty gray blog. For the moment there are a few stray thoughts to catch up on. Then, well who knows, I certainly don't.
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