“Where do you think you’re going today?”
“The Internet today is a much different place than it was when I
logged on for the first time six or so years ago with a 9600 baud
modem.”
“I can accept the fact that the Internet is, in some ways, a
grotesque parody of its earlier self and, in others, it is
virtually unrecognizable ( no pun intended…..). I have almost
come to the acceptance that the net I perused on a command line, at
first, and then on the early Mosaic browsers is harder to find
every day, drowned in a signal to noise ratio that is getting
harder and harder to cut through, more difficult to get to that
potential I, quite literally, fell in love with a few short years
ago.”
“So, what if you license the affiliate algorithm from Amazon? A
penny to Bezos, a penny to someone else who has the patent or
copyright on another idiot-simple browser function like multiple
choice checkboxes. Pretty soon, the act of getting online to do any
commerce will be so divided up and expensive that only the Amazons
of the world dare attempt commerce on the Internet.”