“When I think about, say, 1995, or whever the last moment was before most of us were on the internet and had mobile phones, it seems like a hundred years ago. ... Time passed in fairly large units, or at least not in milliseconds and constant updates. A few hours wasn't such a long time to go between moments of contact with your work, your people or your trivia.” PeopleThinkingYearsLongMomentsSeemsLastsTimeHoursInternetLong TimeHundredYears AgoConstantPhonesContactUnitsMobileTime PassesMobile PhonesUpdatesTrivia Author:Rebecca Solnit
“You can go back to tulip bulbs in Holland 400 years ago. The human beings going through combinations of fear and greed and all of that sort of thing, their behavior can lead to bubbles. And it may have had and Internet bubble at one time, you've had a farm bubble, farmland bubble in the Midwest which resulted in all kinds of tragedy in the early '80s.” YearsHumansKindMayHuman BeingsInternetBehaviorYears AgoTragedyGreedAll KindsCombinationFarmsOne TimeBubbles80sBulbsHollandMidwestFarmland Author:Howard Warren Buffett
“In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 in Norway, five in France. It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.” YearsLastsNextFiveWeekInternetYears AgoUnionsFranceJapanAustraliaAfghanistanSovietFree SpeechLast YearSoviet UnionTurkeysNext WeekNorwayMalaysiaBolivia Book:The Lower River Source: The Lower River
“If you make something good, eventually the audience will be there, eventually there will be something on the Internet that is a cultural phenomenon that's not available anywhere else, that's not available on television broadcasts, that's not on cable, it's only on some Web site. And the world will find it. And when that happens, it will be what the 'kiss' was to the theatrical movie business, 5,000 years ago or whenever it was.” IfsWorldYearsHappensAudienceTelevisionInternetKissingYears AgoAvailablePhenomenonSiteCablesTheatricalMovie Business Author:Michael Eisner
“Only astrophysicists new about the Internet 20 years ago. Today my cat has a website.” YearsTodayInternetYears AgoCatWebsite Author:William J. Clinton
“At least 35 years ago, you didn't have the internet telling you every single thing that happened in every school and college around the world.” WorldYearsSchoolHappenedCollegeInternetYears AgoAround The World Author:Judy Greer
“It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper is scrambling to parlay their existing advantage into dominance on the Internet. But it is way less sure [that this will occur] than the certainty 20 years ago that the basic business would grow steadily, so there's more downside risk. The perfectly fabulous economics of this business could become grievously impaired.” WayYearsCertainGrowsWonderfulRiskInformationInternetAdvantageYears AgoEconomicsThreatNewspapersMediumsCertaintyAlternativesFabulousDominance Author:Charlie Munger
“People will always want more immersive ways to express themselves. So if you go back ten years ago on the internet, most of what people shared and consumed was text. Now a lot of it is photos. I think, going forward, a lot of it is going to be videos, getting richer and richer.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantYearsInternetTenYears AgoVideoConsumedGet Rich Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“I think the Internet really sussed things into perspective. Because twelve years ago, I could spend my days on writing and running my band and touring and making posters and practicing with my band and working on my vocals, but I didn't spend a large pie chart of my time sifting through criticism as well, and nowadays I do, and all female artists do, because to be able to promote your work, you need to live in those spaces.” ThinkingNeedsWritingYearsWellsRunningAbleArtistSpacePerspectiveInternetBandFemaleYears AgoCriticismMy TimeTwelvePieVocalTouringPostersSiftingFemale Artists Author:Amanda Palmer
“Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.” YearsHardFactsInternetYears AgoBoxesPlanesThirtyThirty YearsFacts Of LifePandoraPandora's Box Author:Christine Sneed
“The Internet, you know, 10 or 15 years ago sort of felt like the wild West. You could go out there and do anything and search for things, and, you know, find out about stuff. Now always in the back of my mind, you know, whether it's email or whatever else, it's like, well, is this going to show up somewhere? Is someone going to keep track of this and, you know, know I was searching for - maybe it's an embarrassing disease, maybe it's a weird hobby?” KnowsYearsMindWellsShowsFeltStuffInternetDiseaseYears AgoWestTrackHobbiesEmbarrassingEmailOf My MindWild West Author:Tim Wu
“Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times.” YearsFiveNew YorkTvsInternetYears AgoCriticsRadioFive YearsBlogsNew York Times Author:Joe Buck
“I like to say I have Internet Immorality. From the beginning of the "internet famous" era until now, I've evolved and went with the flow of change, always changing my makeup looks, fashion, and vision. My brand has grown so fast from social media and I don't know how life would be without be logging onto MySpace for the first time 10 years ago!” KnowsYearsFirstsLooksWould BeSocialVisionKnow HowMediaFashionInternetFirst TimeYears AgoFlowSocial MediaBrandsErasMakeupImmoralityLogging Author:Jeffree Star
“My presence in the social media and on the Internet is much bigger than many of the other candidates, including Mitt Romney. So, when you take the social media and you take the Tea Party citizens movement, you have a combination there that, quite frankly, 10 years ago, I wouldn't have had a chance.” YearsSocialChancePartyMediaMovementInternetCitizensYears AgoBiggerIncludingSocial MediaTeaCombinationCandidatesRomneyTea Party Author:Herman Cain
“Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.” YearsTechnologyEconomyFiveInternetYears AgoMediumsFive Years Author:Clement Mok