Check if the data below are useful. Robin http://www.netsurf.com/nsf/v02/02/index.html Netsurfer Focus on Computer and Network Security July 15, 1996 - Volume 02, Issue 02 It's been said that an Internet-year is like a dog-year, having within it the development of seven normal human years. http://portland.bizjournals.com/extraedge/consultants/byte_of_success/1997/07/21/column61.html Internet changing newsletter publishing Chaim Yudkowsky(1997/7/21) There is no real business model for online strategies. There are only specific well-known successes. Because online user expectations are changing and the veteran user becomes more sophisticated, an Internet year is like a dog year equal to seven human years. http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/1997/07/14/smallb5.html Friday, July 11, 1997 Cyber Sense Joint venture keeps Internet costs, risks low Because online user expectations are changing and the veteran user becomes more sophisticated, an Internet year is like a dog year: equal to seven human years. A three-year plan is unreasonable, and traditional marketing methods of online services may be less effective. http://directmag.com/mag/marketing_dm_evolution_business/ A DM E-volution: Business and consumer acceptance of e-mail as a marketing tool skyrockets Nov 1, 1999 12:00 PM, Beth Negus Surprised at how rapidly e-mail marketing has grown? Think of it this way, offers Deb Goldstein, president of IDG Communications List Services, Framingham, MA: "An Internet year is like a dog year - one year equals seven. Three years and you're an expert." http://www.chass.toronto.edu/~wellman/publications/science/science.pdf<http://www.chass.toronto.edu/%7Ewellman/publications/science/science.pdf> Computer Networks As Social Networks Barry Wellman 14 SEPTEMBER 2001 VOL 293 SCIENCE www.sciencemag.org p.2034 An Internet year is like a dog year, changing approximately seven times faster than normal human time. http://www.law.com/jsp/llf/PubArticleFriendlyLLF.jsp?id=1170237757535 Carolyn Murphy The DealFebruary 01, 2007 If an Internet year is like a dog year, as one Mangrove Capital partner suggests, then Google Inc. is pushing 60, while Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN are in their mid-80s. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Wellman" < wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> To: "aoir list" <air-l@aoir.org>; "communication and information technology section asa" <citasa@list.citasa.org> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 8:53 AM Subject: [CITASA] origins of "an internet year is like a dog year" > Does anyone know the origins of this phrase. I've heard it so long, I > don't have a clue as to where it came from. I need a proper citation to > keep a journal editor happy. > > thanks, > > Barry Wellman > _______________________________________________________________________ > > S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director > Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 > University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman > http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman<http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/%7Ewellman> fax:+1-416-978-3963 > Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php > _______________________________________________________________________ >