People who have so much of their personality invested in the Internet can’t really survive as whole individuals without it.

Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.

At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.

Many people have been protesting against what they describe as censorship on Goodreads. I disgree. In fact, I would like to say that I welcome the efforts that Goodreads management is making to improve the deplorably low quality of reviewing on this site.

Please, though, just give me clearer guidelines. I want to know how to use my writing to optimize Amazon sales, especially those of sensitive self-published authors. This is a matter of vital importance to me, and outweighs any possible considerations of making my reviews interesting, truthful, creative or entertaining.

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

Each voice on the Web, no matter how small, speaks of this era to the next generation and says, 'quorum párs magna fui' – 'in which I played a great part.'