"1996 also saw a huge expansion of the
Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind,
spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop World Wide
Web sites in a frantic scramble to reach the vast new consumer
market of Web users. Apparently nobody told the corporations
that 93 percent of these users are in sixth grade."

Who penned these words?

It sounds like something Bill Maher or Dennis Miller would say.

It was the American writer, Dave Berry

http://www.thinkexist.com/English/Author/x/Author_4781_1.htm

Dave Barry!

(DG, I agree it does sound like something Maher would say too.)