Fred Wilson Quotes

The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.

The first commercial routers came out about 1986, and services came in 1987.

What we believe is going to be very important is the delivery of traditional software and services and hardware over the Net. That's a form of electronic marketplace.

The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.

Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.

AIR was born from thinking about how rich Internet applications would play out over time and what new pieces of technology would be in demand for these to go to their next generation.

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

I am instinctively a network infrastructure plumber.

Choosing a single most important development is incredibly hard to do because a lot of different things had to happen before the Internet could be deployed in the fashion it is today.

Traditional PCs face competition from specialty products like Palm Pilots and from the servers that provide the nodes in computer networks. Microsoft's Windows CE hasn't done too well in the specialty-device market, and its Windows NT faces strong competition for server customers.

The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.

So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection.

I really enjoy computer networking.

Streaming is something that's going to require tons of billions of dollars of investment, building server farms close to users and 5G and everything else.

Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.

It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be introduced that is equally sensible.

Any time you build a network, you have to help users find their friends.

I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.

I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.

There's nothing special about wireless networks except that wireless capacity is sometimes less than what you can get, for example, from optical fiber.

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

The next Internet could be in the making somewhere in someone's lab.