<style></style><div>Check if the data below are useful. <br>Robin</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.netsurf.com/nsf/v02/02/index.html">http://www.netsurf.com/nsf/v02/02/index.html</a><br>Netsurfer
Focus on Computer and Network Security<br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">July 15, 1996</span> - Volume 02, Issue
02<br>It's been said that an Internet-year is like a dog-year, having within it
the development of seven normal human years. </div>
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<div><a href="http://portland.bizjournals.com/extraedge/consultants/byte_of_success/1997/07/21/column61.html">http://portland.bizjournals.com/extraedge/consultants/byte_of_success/1997/07/21/column61.html</a><br>Internet
changing newsletter publishing<br>Chaim Yudkowsky(<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">1997/7/21</span>)<br>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. </div>
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<div><a href="http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/1997/07/14/smallb5.html">http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/1997/07/14/smallb5.html</a>
<br>Friday, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">July 11, 1997</span><br>Cyber Sense<br>Joint venture keeps Internet costs,
risks low<br>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. </div>
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<div><a href="http://directmag.com/mag/marketing_dm_evolution_business/">http://directmag.com/mag/marketing_dm_evolution_business/</a>
<br>A DM E-volution: Business and consumer acceptance of e-mail as a marketing
tool skyrockets<br>Nov 1, 1999 12:00 PM, Beth Negus<br>Surprised at how rapidly
e-mail marketing has grown? Think of it this way, offers<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Deb Goldstein,</span>
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."</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.chass.toronto.edu/%7Ewellman/publications/science/science.pdf">http://www.chass.toronto.edu/~wellman/publications/science/science.pdf</a><br>Computer
Networks As Social Networks<br><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Barry Wellman</span><br>14 SEPTEMBER <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">2001</span> VOL 293
SCIENCE <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/">www.sciencemag.org</a> p.2034<br>An
Internet year is like a dog year, changing approximately seven times faster than
normal human time.</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/llf/PubArticleFriendlyLLF.jsp?id=1170237757535">http://www.law.com/jsp/llf/PubArticleFriendlyLLF.jsp?id=1170237757535</a><br>Carolyn
Murphy The DealFebruary 01, 2007<br>If an Internet year is like a dog year, as <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
one Mangrove Capital partner suggests</span>, then Google Inc. is pushing 60, while
Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN are in their mid-80s. <br><br></div>
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<div><br></div>> Does anyone know the origins of this phrase. I've heard it
so long, I<br>> don't have a clue as to where it came from. I need a proper
citation to<br>> keep a journal editor happy.<br>> <br>>
thanks,<br>> <br>> Barry
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