“Here is the Top Ten on the Richter scale of movers and shakers
on the Internet in 1998”.
- Monica Lewinsky
- Microsoft
“The company that marked time with Windows 98 and a host of beta
products provoked the biggest anti-monopoly case since the US
Government took on the AT&T telecommunications giant in
1974.” - Open Source software
“… where program code is laid bare for others to share, adapt
and improve on, was boosted in ’98 by the backlash against…
Microsoft… The company unwittingly revealed its fear of the
advance of the Linux operating system and Apache server software in
the leaked “Halloween” internal memos…” - Portal Power
- E-commerce
- Net activism
- Net governance
- Net exhibitionism
- Net wealth
- Net style
“There was an execrable attempt to dramatise the Net… a Bill
Gates movie, The Pirates of Silicon Valley, is due in the New
Year.”