IR on the Web: an overview

Abstract

In a widely‐publicised article in Business Week magazine, three American journalists pose the rhetorical question ‘What's wrong with the Internet?’, and give three pithy responses with the intention of summarising the opinion of millions of network users around the world. Firstly, they argue, ‘it's too slow’: people are fed up with the ‘World Wide Wait’. Secondly, ‘it's not built right’: security is poor, support for multimedia is weak, and charging for usage is problematic. And thirdly, ‘good stuff is hard to find’: a commonly quoted aphorism characterises the Internet as a library where the shelves keep moving, where there is no catalogue, and where an extra lorry‐load of books is dumped in the entrance hall every five minutes.

Citation

Furner, J. (1996), "IR on the Web: an overview", VINE, Vol. 26 No. 3, pp. 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb040608