Wikipedia. How the Web Was Won: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com. The Internet made possible new forms of self-promotion.
A former model on The Price Is Right and a “fembot” in the Mike Myers film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Cindy Margolis shot to fame in the 1990s as the world’s “most downloaded woman” (according to the Guinness Book of World Records). Cindy Margolis: A lot of my success had to do with timing. In 1996, it was all about the Internet. Ivana Bentes: Cultura Digital e Midialivrismo contemplados nas P. EFF kills another stupid internet patent. EFF's patent-busting project has put another notch in its belt: today they killed a truly outrageous patent on the use of subdomains for navigation and content management, as with jwz.livejournal.com.
Can you believe that the patent office granted that patent in 2004, based on a 1999 application? Can you believe that the people who filed the patent claimed (with a straight face) that they didn't know of any other prior art that made this invalid?