Quotes About Internet

Bob Metcalfe created a way to use coaxial cable (the type that plugs into cable TV boxes) to create a high-bandwidth system that he named "Ethernet.

TCP/IP. Kahn and Cerf published them as a paper called "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection." The Internet was born.

Ethernet, the technologies developed by Bob Metcalfe

Outside of Search, Google's products—Android, Google Docs—are shit.

The little device that finally created a connection between home computers and global networks was called a modem.

Case came up with America Online

AOL's users were not called customers or subscribers; they were members.

Online services such as AOL developed independently of the Internet.

until 1992, it was illegal to connect a commercial service like AOL to the Internet," Steve Case said.37

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and the World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

launched the Web in 1991, Tim Berners-Lee

Gore pushed the National Information Infrastructure Act of 1993, which made the Internet widely available to the general public and moved it into the commercial sphere so that its growth could be funded by private as well as government investment.

Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, born in 1915 and known to everyone as "Lick." He pioneered the two most important concepts underlying the Internet: decentralized networks that would enable the distribution of information to and from anywhere, and interfaces that would facilitate human-machine interaction in real time.

Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, two of the people who did in fact invent the Internet's protocols, spoke up on Gore's behalf.

online encyclopedia. Jimmy Wales was born in 1966

Web directories, which featured human-assembled lists and categories of cool sites, and Web rings, which created through a common navigation bar a circle of related sites that were linked to one another.

Ward Cunningham's wiki software.

It's a mark of our political discourse that one of the significant nonpartisan achievements on behalf of American innovation got turned into a punch line because of something that Gore never quite said—that he "invented" the Internet.

each page was ranked by the number and quality of links coming into it, and the quality of these links was determined by the number and quality of links to the pages that originated them, and so on. "It's all recursive," Page explained. "It's all a big circle.

the microchip, the computer, and the internet. When these three innovations were combined, the digital revolution was born.

Berners-Lee built the Web on top of the Internet.

Something about the structure of my brain, its associative, porous, open-endedness, was defenseless against the ever-enlarging Web. Every video, news story, photo, email, stock chart, sexy picture, and five-day weather forecast was an enticement to step into the forest, and once I was two or three bread crumbs down the path, the witches had me, I was in their oven.

One reason the Internet fosters conspiracy theories is that its system of branching, crossing tunnels is shaped like paranoid reasoning itself, and once inside the shadow maze you find yourself tracking elusive glimmers of light that recede as fast as you can follow them.

There would be internet, and books, and music. He could think, and be, and hold the world at a distance in order to see it properly.