Gene Spafford, a computer science professor at Purdue University, is well-known for his aphorisms regarding the Internet. Coined in the early days, when one of the biggest online functions was Usenet, the word "Internet" or the phrase "World Wide Web" can easily replace "Usenet" in his axioms, and they will remain just as true. * Axiom #1: "The Usenet is not the real world. The Usenet usually does not even resemble the real world." o Corollary #1: "Attempts to change the real world by altering... read more
