Note: Although not exactly about technology, there is the Internet connection. 🙂
“Great quote! But who really said it? From ‘Beam me up, Scotty,’ to, ‘Nice guys finish last,’ we love to use quotations. Except we use them all wrong, it turns out.
[W]hile the Internet is his best tool in the hunt for authenticity, it’s also his biggest foe. “The Internet has different methods of propagating quotations,” [Fred] Shapiro says. “Sometimes people put a quote as part of the signature of their emails. There are now Internet memes that spread like wildfire.”
As the legendary baseball player Yogi Berra once said: “I never said most of the things I said.” But, then again, did he say that?”
Except for the first line, the material above was copied from www.macleans.ca and pasted here with minimal editing.