It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet, everyone decided everything should stick around forever.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.
When I was born, the Internet was barely two years old. It was the preserve of academics, used to connect dozens rather than billions of users. There weren't many who predicted it would transform our world.
From early on... we really looked at the Internet as a whole new way to provide storytelling and entertainment.
Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind.
The Internet isn't just itself a revolution - it sometimes starts them, too.
The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life precisely because it has been an open-to-all land of opportunity where entrepreneurs, thinkers and innovators are free to try, fail and then try again.
We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.
The idea of the Internet as sort of open and democratic and free and with no hierarchy, the libertarian beginnings as it were, with peer-to-peer networks... I'd sort of like for everyone to just admit that we're beyond that now.
In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.
When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and television and the death of the family dinner, this would be the last straw that would totally break society.