Annalee Newitz Quotes

I've been online since 1989; I was sysop on several CompuServe forums.

With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.

I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

The 'World Wide Web', as people quaintly called the Internet in 1996, was more or less made up of text. There was no YouTube. There was no Facebook. There was, however, Usenet, a loose and difficult-to-navigate assortment of message boards.

The Internet has created so many niche audiences that when millions or even thousands of people can be on the same page it's a truly special thing.

I've never seen a boy band that had members who look like us - kids of color from all over the world - and met on the Internet.

I learned most of what I knew about online communities on The Well, and it was a good place to learn. The group of people in Sausalito and Bolinas who'd gotten the Whole Earth Catalog off the ground - a bunch of boomer hippies, intellectuals and nerds - established the 'Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link', and showed us what online communities were.

The best way we have to ensure that consumers are fairly represented in today's confusing world of buzzwords and rapidly evolving technologies is to communicate openly with others and tap into the social and networking resources that the Web itself provides us all.

One of the wonderful things about the Internet is that it allows us to create lots of different kinds of content for lots of different kinds of people.

I used to be on the Internet a lot, so all my friends on the Internet were from California.

The Internet is a sketch show.

I'm a child of the internet.

I just like cliches. I like tvtropes.com. It's pretty much my bible.

I did comics on the Internet because it was free, and if I had made printed copies, I wouldn't have known what to do with them. But I knew how to make a website when most people didn't, and back then, that was enough!

I'm so into this idea that the Internet was this reservoir of mythologies and histories, and the architecture of it being linked pages that create hard connections and bridges between ideas that shouldn't be linked.

My stuff gets in a lot of vaporwave Facebook groups for some reason.

Wikipedia's funny. Some of the stuff on there - I go there occasionally - it's unbelievable the amount of stuff that people will write on there.

I've always been an Internet kid.

I love going on IMDb message boards, and there are some hilarious things that go on there - the most negative people on the planet.

Now it's hard to pick up any copy of 'Wired' that doesn't mention YouTube.

I have no history with 4chan.

I started using the Internet heavily right around the time when memes started to become their own form of entertainment. I started to get into every side of the Internet around 13-ish.

I love Twitter. Here, I get pieces of information quickly, and I also get myriad viewpoints rather than a one-sided view from a particular newspaper. Here, I have got a topic and 11 viewpoints, and I can judge for myself.

There's only a few platforms that really aggregate content well together, Facebook being one of the best, probably the most diverse of all of them.