Internet community or industry?

[Roger Clarke]

>Roger.Clarke@anu.edu.au (Roger Clarke) wrote:
>> Subject:       Re: It's not dead yet...
>
>> Candidate for .sig quote of the week:
>>
>> "The Internet is a community first and an industry second"
>>
>> (with apologies for mild bastardisation of something in Karl Auer's Press
>> Release)
>

Robin Whittle replied (inter alia):
>However that does not mean that we should be talking up the idea of
>an "Internet community".
>There is no "Telephone community" - although there arguably may have
>been one when the adoption rates were only a few percent.
...
>Maybe there was an "Internet community" three or more years ago ...


Alright, then;  how about:

"The Internet is communities first and an industry second"
or
"The Internet is community first and industry second"

Ah the perils of aphorisms ...


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