• CDA (1996)

    A three-judge panel–Chief Judge Dolores Sloviter, Judge Stewart Dalzell, and Judge Ronald Backwater–heard final oral arguments from the plaintiffs this morning in the case of ACLU v. Janet Reno, a suit filed in February in an effort to overturn the Communications Decency Act (CDA). The CDA criminalizes the posting of…

  • Hardware: Prices and Predictions (1996)

    Are you looking to buy a computer? Just take a look at this! March 22 8 meg EDO RAM $220 April 9 8 meg EDO RAM $160 TODAY 8 meg EDO RAM $91 Is this insane or what?! Price have been falling for months and months. The question is: Will…

  • Midi Discovery (1996)

    Kokopelli has recently developed new techniques in web page design. Background music in the form of .midi files have been a source of frustration for web designers because of varying HTML tags and cross-platform configuration, not to mention the near impossibility of embedding music on a page without having the…

  • Java Security Fears (1996)

    Java and the people freaking out. Before I say anything about Java: If you believe your life is in mortal danger over this evil operating system spawned from the loins of hell, please disable java in your browser. Click on Options in your menu bar above. Check Security (version 2.0)…

  • I Love This Game! (1996)

    SPORTS NEWS OVERSHADOWS NET NEWS FOR FIRST TIME!! It’s the NBA playoffs ladies and gentlemen, so forget about Intel, Microsoft and Netscape. I Love This Game! Check out the brackets to see exactly whats going on here. Ross Perot, Jr. is set to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Gee, It’s nice…

  • Internet Expo 96

    Internet World ’96 kicked off yesterday in San Jose, California. Here are some of the myriad of developments that erupted from the West Coast conference. Microsoft added new components to its BackOffice server applications but kept the price as is. The suggested price for a five-user license for BackOffice Server…

  • Teleco Mergers & Predictions

    Recovered from Archive.org – Apr 1, 1997   Glimpse of the Future. There is a lot going on now that gives insight into the terrain of the future on and off the net. Bell Atlantic and Nynex have announced plans to merge, forming the largest teleco in the world. Due…

  • Baby Internet

    Recovered from Archive.org – Apr 29, 1997 There was a man who once proclaimed that he was shutting down shop. He ran the local Patent Office. He bellowed at the top of his lungs his exasperation, “Everything inventable has been invented. There is nothing more that can be done.” Eighteen…

  • Cause du Jour

    Recovered from Archive.org – Apr 24, 1997 With every great society and culture what inevitably happens is that some losers declare themselves to be leaders of the masses. The net is no exception to this rule. These leaders try to rally the masses to follow their lead which usually can…

  • Hardware & Losers

    Recovered from Archive.org – Apr 20, 1997 So whats going on in the hardware world you ask? Good question. Vendors are coming around to releasing Pentium Pro 200mhtz servers. NT is becoming a real threat to Novell Netware and Sun Solaris on these machines. Intel is releasing a Pentium Pro…

  • 1-1-00 Problemo

    Recovered from Archive.org – Apr 18, 1997 Funny and news at the same time. We all live our lives in cycles. We wake up in the morning, work and play all day and go to sleep at night. We count on that as we experience each minute, day, week, year…

  • Internet Explorer Mail / News

    Recovered from Archive.org – Apr 17, 1997 (One of my first design critiques) Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 3.0 is expected to be released in beta in just two weeks. The much anticipated upgrade to 2.0 will include many features Netscape holds a monopoly over. New functions will include Java support and an…

  • Image is Everything

    Recovered from Archive.org – Apr 13, 1997 OK Let’s map all this out: DATE Search Engine IPO OPEN HIGH CLOSE NOW April 2 Lycos $16 $29.25 $21.94 $17 April 4 Excite $17 $21.25 $20 $14.50 April 13 Yahoo! $24.50 $43 $33 $33 So whats the story morning glory? Whats the…

  • Yahoo! IPO

    Recovered from Archive.org – Apr 12, 1997 Yahoo is officially a publically traded company. Today Yahoo is offering 2.6 million shares of stock at $13 per share. Yahoo was founded in April 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were students at Stanford University’s Electrical Engineering program. In April…