Online Revolution Quotes

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.

Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.

Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.

The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.

I remember when AOL was small and they were growing like mad. Consumers were coming on in droves because they made it easy to connect to the Internet. That was the single biggest innovation of AOL; when grandmas were signing up, AOL had arrived.

I'm kind of calling for a - I'm not the only one - you know, a revolution of some kind where we try to take back the web or start something new because, you know, the dominant medium of our time is in a desperate state and it doesn't have to be like that.

I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.

Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online video revolution.

Now AOL is the grandma of online Web services. I mean, we don't need it anymore.

I truly believe that what we're seeing with online dating is very similar to what happened with the Myspace-Facebook era, where Myspace was once this place for online connecting for a very select group of young people. And then Facebook kind of hit at this moment where it was acceptable for everybody to do it.

The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.

When the Internet first launched, you had all these newspapers saying that the Internet was only used by bad people, to do bad things and what was the point of it. But the Internet changed everything, just like Bitcoin will.

The Internet's completely over. [...] The Internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. [...] They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

AOL was a roller coaster ride. I was lucky and privileged to be a part of it, both the ups and the downs.

Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.

The Internet is not kind to established institutions.

No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming.

When Netscape failed, it didn't mean the Internet was over.

This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

Remember when those CD-ROMs from AOL came in the mail almost every day? The company was considered ubiquitous, invincible. Former AOL CEO Steve Case was no less a genius than Mark Zuckerberg.

By the time I graduated college, I was sick of what was out there. I wanted to bring something new to the Internet.