Online History Quotes

One of AOL's biggest assets is its brand. For people over 30 and, due to AOL Instant Messenger, even a lot of people under 30, AOL was their first real interaction with technology in a positive way.

We all have a history of digital texts, posts, messages, reposts/tweets that are sitting out there and can be used by anyone for any reason.

I have no history with 4chan.

We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.

I was one of the first people to join Facebook in February of 2004, and launched one of the inaugural applications on the platform in May 2007.

RSS, as a format and an idea, grew directly out of an internet culture that many people online today know nothing about: Usenet.

I was an early user of AOL - so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses.

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

I'm so grateful for archives like Wayback Machine, who for 15 years have been creating snapshots of almost the entire web.

When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.