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Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about everything online. What's more, they've done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever.

Cory Doctorow (born 17 July 1971

No one had any idea, it turned out. None of the older Symphony members knew much about science, which was frankly maddening given how much time these people had had to look things up on the Internet before the world ended.

Emily St. John Mandel

In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.

Michael Crichton

"In my opinion, Richard Stallman wouldn't recognise terrorism if it

came up and bit him on his Internet."

When Dexter's on the Internet, can Hell be far behind?"

Unknown

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

Cartoon caption

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

William (Bill) H. Gates

He wore eyeliner and gauged his ears and bought intentionally offensive t-shirts off the internet, which he would then wear to the shop, betting Jack that today was the day he’d get punched in the mouth by a swamper.

Ania Ahlborn

We help the internet not suck.

Jimmy Wales (born 7 August 1966

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.

Lawrence Lessig

The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.

Unknown

<knghtbrd> joeyh: I was down since midmorning yesterday and pacbell said

           this morning that AT&T was to blame and almost all of the state

           was down

<rcw> dunno why people insist the internet can survive a nuclear holocaust

      when it can't survive a backhoe

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"In my opinion, Richard Stallman wouldn't recognize terrorism if it

came up and bit him on his Internet."

        -- Ross M. Greenberg

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Debian Linux is a solid, comprehensive product, and a genuine pleasure to

use.  It is also great to become involved with the Debian collective,

whose friendliness and spirit recalls the early days of the Internet and

its sense of openness and global cooperation.

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On the Internet, no one knows you're using Windows NT

        -- Submitted by Ramiro Estrugo, restrugo@fateware.com

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"Even more amazing was the realization that God has Internet access.  I

wonder if He has a full newsfeed?"

(By Matt Welsh)

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When Dexter's on the Internet, can Hell be far behind?"

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"On the Internet, no one knows you're using Windows NT"

(Submitted by Ramiro Estrugo, restrugo@fateware.com)

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It's easy to get on the internet and forget you have a life

        -- Topic on #LinuxGER

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... Where was Stac Electronics when Microsoft invented Doublespace? Where

were Xerox and Apple when Microsoft invented the GUI?  Where was Apple's

QuickTime when Microsoft invented Video for Windows?  Where was Spyglass

Inc.'s Mosaic when Microsoft invented Internet Explorer? Where was Sun

when Microsoft invented Java?

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Try to remove the color-problem by restarting your computer several times.

        -- Microsoft Internet Explorer's README.TXT

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On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

        -- Cartoon caption

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<Knghtbrd> Internet censorship.  Because your children need to be

           protected from naked women, medical procedures, diverse

       cultures, and violent video games.

<knghtbrd> (but information on building bombs, stealing cable, and

           manufacturing drugs is okay...)

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    On the other hand, the TCP camp also has a phrase for OSI people.

There are lots of phrases.  My favorite is `nitwit' -- and the rationale

is the Internet philosophy has always been you have extremely bright,

non-partisan researchers look at a topic, do world-class research, do

several competing implementations, have a bake-off, determine what works

best, write it down and make that the standard.

    The OSI view is entirely opposite.  You take written contributions

from a much larger community, you put the contributions in a room of

committee people with, quite honestly, vast political differences and all

with their own political axes to grind, and four years later you get

something out, usually without it ever having been implemented once.

    So the Internet perspective is implement it, make it work well,

then write it down, whereas the OSI perspective is to agree on it, write

it down, circulate it a lot and now we'll see if anyone can implement it

after it's an international standard and every vendor in the world is

committed to it.  One of those processes is backwards, and I don't think

it takes a Lucasian professor of physics at Oxford to figure out which.

        -- Marshall Rose, "The Pied Piper of OSI"

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It turned out that the worm exploited three or four different holes in the

system.  From this, and the fact that we were able to capture and examine

some of the source code, we realized that we were dealing with someone very

sharp, probably not someone here on campus.

        -- Dr. Richard LeBlanc, associate professor of ICS, in

           Georgia Tech's campus newspaper after the Internet worm.

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Except for Great Britain. According to ISO 9166 and Internet reality

Great Britain's toplevel domain should be _gb_.  Instead, Great Britain

and Nortern Ireland (the United Kingdom) use the toplevel domain _uk_.

They drive on the wrong side of the road, too.

        -- PERL book (or DNS and BIND book)

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"Perhaps I am flogging a straw herring in mid-stream, but in the light of

what is known about the ubiquity of security vulnerabilities, it seems vastly

too dangerous for university folks to run with their heads in the sand."

        -- Peter G. Neumann, RISKS moderator, about the Internet virus

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Even more amazing was the realization that God has Internet access.  I

wonder if He has a full newsfeed?

        -- Matt Welsh

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Internet users who spend even a few hours a week online

at home experience higher levels of depression and loneliness than if

they had used the computer network less frequently, The New York Times

reported Sunday.  The result ...  surprised both researchers and

sponsors, which included Intel Corp., Hewlett Packard, AT&T Research and

Apple Computer.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky     The Brothers Karamazov

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