"When you go out there, the webpages you see are written by people. You're looking at a certain sub-set of the churning mass of humanity out there. So it's not that the web itself is an animal, but it's that society is this really exciting, decentralized thing, and the web, fortunately, is more or less able to echo it."
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“Talk of the Nation”, (September 1, 2002) as quoted by Julian Ring “30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world”, NPR, April 30, 2023
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