When did Bill Gates say that the Internet was just a passing fad? I'm
looking for the month and year, the media to whom he said so and of
course for the exact sentence he said. Thanks, Massimo

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Request for Question Clarification by robertskelton-ga on 08 Apr 2004 05:43 PDT

Could it be:

"The Internet? We are not interested in it"
-- Bill Gates, 1993

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Clarification of Question by supermax73-ga on 08 Apr 2004 07:57 PDT

Hi, not really sure... we're talking about pre-IE, but not necessarily
pre-Netscape, so I don't really know if it could be as early al
1993...

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Request for Question Clarification by googleexpert-ga on 08 Apr 2004 21:24 PDT

Hi Massimo,
I found the following quote:
"Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet
came along, we had it has a fifth or sixth priority."
--> Bill Gates ( July 20 Issue of Fortune )
URL: http://news.com.com/2100-1023-212942.html?legacy=cnet

Is it possible the quote you are looking for was said some time after 1995?

I ask because Internet Explorer v1.0 was released around July 1995.
URL: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryIE.mspx

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Clarification of Question by supermax73-ga on 08 Apr 2004 23:14 PDT

people on my blog - http://www.dotcoma.it - have been telling me that
the date was 1995 when Gates launched Windows 95 and MSN which
apparently should have, in his Highness's original plans, overtaken
the Internet... (LOL)

Bill certainly did say that Xenix was going to take over the world.

What is Xenix?

You may well ask: it was Microsoft's UNIX-based multi-user system of 20 years ago.

We are still waiting!

hi,
This is the info I found...might not be the complete answer,but the best I could do

Bill Gates was making statements like, "the Internet is a passing fad
that will go the way of the BBS."

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/archive/thread/175116-1.html


more info
http://www.mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=443

some related date is around 1995 ending.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1996/jan96/msnovpr.asp

Of course, Bill could still be right about the Internet ...

Maybe it is just 'a passing fad'.

Who, in Robin Hood's day, would have thought that the Bow and Arrow
would have been superseded by Guided Missiles?

as far as I'm concerned,

the mcpmag article you point to has all the info I need :-) 
http://www.mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=443

I really had a hard time finding anything like this... 
Looks like they covered up the evidence, doesn't it? ;-)

Please let me know how to pay you. Wish you a Happy Easter,

Massimo

supermax73,

The link to the mcpmag article was not posted by a Google Answers
Researcher, so payment isn't an option. You can tell Researchers from
non-Researchers by looking at the way the username is displayed. A
Researcher's name is highlighted and "clickable." This is not the case
with non-Researchers' names.

ah. I see. thanks for the explanation. Looks like I just saved two bucks :-)

BOO HOO I want my dollars..ok just kidding, i'm glad u got the answer
u wanted, happy easter to u too.

:-)