Egor Bykovsky Investment fever begins in RuNet Perhaps, in the entire history of commodity-money relations, no business has developed as rapidly as advertising and trading on the Internet. And the year 2000 may become not only the year of rapid growth of business services on the Russian Internet, but also the year of a qualitative change in the psychology of online buyers. If you're lucky.

Sergey Gandlevsky M.: Consent, 2000 At the wake of K., my close friend, as usual, speeches were made. The deceased was a remarkable woman: kind, intelligent, took up a lot of space, passionate and biased, malicious... But from the words heard at the funeral table, one could get the impression that an hour ago they buried a blissful quiet woman.

Egor Bykovsky The word “press” when applied to the media is no longer very true Online media and the traditional press coming online were until recently separated by a blind barrier. The first ones were typed up by programmers or semi-programmers who knew hypertext markup languages ​​and other programming languages ​​used to build websites; the latter looked poor and strange, since they were not rich in such specialists.

Masha Lipman The website washingtonpost.com offers every news service imaginable, but so far only the paper newspaper makes money By the end of the 70s, evening newspapers ceased to exist in America. Americans moved to the suburbs, which meant getting home later, and delivering newspapers became a much longer process. Meanwhile, large television companies were growing rapidly. After reading the morning newspaper, the American went to work, and when he returned, he sat down to watch the TV.

Natalia Kalinichenko “Customizing” the Federal Securities Market Commission “to suit” the St. Petersburg management team could be costly for investors (Photo: Max Novikov ) Who among the high-ranking officials of the state has not recently spoken about the shortage of investments, which Russia needs like air. But officials are very reluctant to talk about the other side of this problem - guarantees of investors' rights.

Evgeny Gorny The explosion of interest in the Internet in Russia leads to qualitative changes The Russian network is changing rapidly and dramatically. Dry numbers: in 1996 there were from 100 to 300 thousand Russian users, and now, according to various estimates, from 2.5 to 6 million; In 1996, there were about five hundred Russian-language servers; now their number is approaching 80 thousand (and the number of unique pages is 17 million).

Sergey Gandlevsky The publishing house "New Literary Review" published Mikhail Gasparov's book "Records and Extracts" An unusual book. Memoirs are not memoirs, although there are several essays of an autobiographical nature. At the same time, in “Records and Extracts” there is something of an anthology of aphorisms, although it was originally compiled not for our reading, but for the author’s own needs.

Evgeny Gorny Two-way exchange of information, that is, communication, is the circulatory system of the Network The history of mankind can be considered as the history of communication (forms, methods and means of communication); historians of the Internet include it among a number of other technological inventions that allow people to overcome the impossibility of instant “face-to-face” communication.

Brad Stone (Newsweek) Investors have become more discerning and are no longer willing to throw their hats into just any online company. Just recently, the company, founded by Darby Williams, a former Microsoft employee, showed all the outward signs of prosperity, and there was no sign of trouble. In 1996, Williams came up with the idea of ​​founding the world's first company that would accept online orders for the delivery of gourmet gourmet dishes.