[CITASA] [Air-L] origins of "an internet year is like a dog year"

[M. Deanya Lattimore]

Hi Barry -- first I searched Google Books:

This source, Helen Chryssides, _Your Home Business_, cites Monte Huebsch in
a seminar.

Another source, _Media, Politics and the Network Society_ by Robert Hassan,
uses the quote in a hypothetical example saying that it was read on the
internet somewhere.

Vinton Cerf says, "they say...": "Well, they say a year in the Internet
business is like a dog year -- equivalent to seven years in a regular
person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster. When we
started in the early 70s, we were running the Internet at the speed of 50 KB
per second. Thanks to the technological advances today we have a speed of 10
GB per second -- almost 1000 times better."
http://www.rediff.com/computer/1999/dec/08vint.htm

So IMHO: cite Cerf, but isn't it likely that someone like Huebsch came up
with it?

:-) Deanya




On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>wrote:

> 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,
>
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