Over the years, we’ve collected a lot of quotes about the Internet. Remember, we’ve been on the ‘net since 1993 so we’ve seen and heard a lot. Below are our favourites …

1. When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web…. Now even my cat has its own page. – Bill Clinton, 1996
2. On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. – Peter Steiner, The New Yorker, July 5th 1993
3. There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet (…); the other was the fact that the century would end. – Douglas Adams
4. 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. – Anonymous
5. Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. – Roger Ebert
6. Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame – MG Siruam
7. Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. – Tim Berners-Lee, July 1996
8. You can’t take something off the Internet – it’s like taking pee out of a pool.  – Author Unknown, 1995
9. The Internet is just the world passing around notes in a classroom.  – Jon Stewart
10. 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

More quotes here – here as well – here and here.

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We love our technology. In fact everybody here at WebsiteForensics has an iPod Touch, iTunes, thousands of mp3 files as well has hundreds of CDs. Some of us even had old tapes, LPs, EPs. One of us even owns a USB turntable – but what of music of yesteryear? We don’t just mean 78’s, we mean music from up to 120 years ago … We are talking about cylinder records from the 1870s to the 1920s. Cylinders made out of tinfoil, brown wax and plastic …

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