“Reading through the forums, there are a lot of people who are using Wikipedia to figure out what BBSs are, and discussing the need for 'some kind of special hardware modem' to access these things that are 'sort of like message board except you have to dial into them on the telephone line'.”

“Historians and scholars have access to every issue of every newspaper and journal written during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s, but can access only a comparative handful of papers covering the election of Barack Obama.” — Jeffrey Zeldman