[Enchante]

"The Internet has been operating now for 10 years," Gates said.

???? I suppose he's speaking very loosely of the mass audience on the WorldWideWeb, but that is an extraordinarily inaccurate statement for a leading digital technologist to utter. The web has been around for 15 years and the "Internet" goes back decades, which he knows very well. So he must mean by "Internet" the mass phenomenon of tens and then hundreds of millions of people on the web.

[Borges]

The big break through in terms of the general public awareness was Netscape which came out in 1994.

[glorgau]

"The Internet has been operating now for 10 years," Gates said.

It's the Bill Gates reality distortion field. Every time I see the guy do an interview or make some speech, he never fails to utter some self serving jaw dropping inaccuracy.