I-quote - 9781599211503

Launched in 1969 by UCLA researchers, the Internet was followed by the first e-mails in 1972, and the consumer servers such as America Online in the 1980s. In the infancy of computer networks, overblown predictions and woefully wrong prognostications abounded. This book is one part humor, one part timeline of the phenomenon. It's full of banter, riffs, and one-liners that surprise and entertain us while reminding of how far we've come in so short a time.

"Nobody who wasn't a high-energy physicist had even heard of the World Wide Web when I became President. And now even my cat, Socks, has his own page." President Bill Clinton, 1996

"This Ken Starr report is now posted on the Internet. I'll bet Clinton's glad he put a computer in every classroom."
Jay Leno, 1998

"[Gore] is a man who has great numbers -- I'm beginning to think not only did he invent the Internet, he invented the calculator."
George Bush, 2000

"The day I made that statement, about inventing the Internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder. "
Al Gore, 1999

Quotes from Bill Gates, Al Gore, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Andrews Grove, Larry Page William Gibson, Marshall McLuhan, Jay Leno, Laurie Anderson, Rupert Murdoch, Douglas Adams, Jack Welch, and even Gertrude Stein are here, along with scores more.