When Usenet was eclipsed by websites in the late 1990s, people from that world - many of them programmers - wanted to bring the freewheeling, amazing discussions of Usenet to the web. And thus, RSS was born.
I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.
The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.
People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications.
I was interested in the questions that come up when the Internet gives you access not just to JSTOR libraries and to digital information, but also to things that are live and dynamic and organic in some way.
The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.
People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser.
From early on... we really looked at the Internet as a whole new way to provide storytelling and entertainment.
The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.
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.
