• BUYOUT! (1996)

    Recovered from Archive.org – Apr 1, 1997 Microsoft sets to buy out Netscape Navigator! In a shocking story, the Wall Street Journal outlined the plans of software behemoth, Microsoft Corp to bypass its internet strategy and attempt a hostile takeover of Netscape Communications. This move will virtually seal, if successful,…

  • News! March, 1996

    Recovered from Archive.org – Mar 30, 1997 Netscape released thier Navigator 3.0 into beta here. OK, so now Netscape has a 2.01 release, a 2.0 Gold beta 2 that has a nifty WYSIWYG editor built in, an international version release, about 30 or so plugins and now finally the 3.0 beta…

  • News

    Originally posted: March 30, 1996 Netscape released thier Navigator 3.0 into beta here. OK, so now Netscape has a 2.01 release, a 2.0 Gold beta 2 that has a nifty WYSIWYG editor built in, an international version release, about 30 or so plugins and now finally the 3.0 beta codenamed ATLAS.…

  • Money & Ultra SCSI-2

    Originally posted March 25, 1996 :  The newest innovation in hard drives is the Ultra Wide SCSI-3. Quantum is releasing a 1.2 gig version along with some higher capacity drives. Seagate and other manufacturers are also expected to release SCSI-3 compatible drives. These drives will have a 40 meg burst…

  • Money & Ultra SCSI-2

    Recovered from Archive.org – Mar 25, 1997 The newest innovation in hard drives is the Ultra Wide SCSI-3. Quantum is releasing a 1.2 gig version along with some higher capacity drives. Seagate and other manufacturers are also expected to release SCSI-3 compatible drives. These drives will have a 40 meg…

  • PC/TV

    Originally posted Mar 23, 1996: Gateway unveiled this week in Manhattan (Hey, how come nobody sent me an invitation? It’s an old internet boys network (double pun) thats why!! … umm…anyway) Gateway unveiled a possible melding of mediums. A PC/TV. Let’s take for granted the fact that its Gateway SIX…

  • PC/TV

    Recovered from Archive.org – Mar 23, 1997 Gateway unveiled this week in Manhattan (Hey, how come nobody sent me an invitation? It’s an old internet boys network (double pun) that’s why!! … umm…anyway) Gateway unveiled a possible melding of mediums. A PC/TV. Let’s take for granted the fact that its Gateway SIX THOUSAND…

  • Hardware – 1996

    In the last year PC’s have made amazing advancements in the area of multimedia and video capabilities. Macs no longer have such a distinct desktop publishing advantage over PCs, nor do Unix boxes like the Sun Sparc stations have overwhelming computational leads. PC’s have been getting cheaper and faster all…

  • Design franchises

    Recovered from Archive.org – Mar 21, 1997 Last week saw two portentious announcements. USWeb announced that it will start a nationwide franchise of internet consulting and web design firms. Compuserve revealed one day later that the online behemoth was planning a web hosting service. The CompuServe plan is less ambitious…

  • Net Losers

    Recovered from Archive.org – Mar 19, 1997 News happens everyday. Today Microsoft did something and Netscape responded with blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda. Sometimes, like today, the news isn’t that interesting. I am the first one to be shouting out predictions for every news article to hit the Associated Press,…

  • Virtual Space

    Recovered from Archive.org – Mar 18, 1997 A few months back VRML made its debut in a hot flash of excitement which quickly dwindled to a dull florescent glow of light praise. The problem was that the only thing you could look at was a 3D view of a giant…

  • Alliance Week

    Recovered from Archive.org This week has officially been dubbed: Alliance week. America Online has allied itself with Netscape, then agreed to make Microsoft Internet Explorer the de facto browser for all AOL users come this spring. AT&T is talking with AOL as well as Compuserve who is also talking with Netscape…

  • Microsoft / AOL deal

    Recovered from Archive.org Well it seems final: Microsoft Internet Explorer will be the proprietary browser for the 5 million (and growing) America Online users and the next version of Windows 95 will include easy access to the online service via a desktop folder. The good news for Netscape is that…

  • AOL Possibilities

    Recovered from Archive.org. America Online is kicking ass. I think we all remember not too long ago when AOL was in third place behind Compuserve and Prodigy. Now with 5 million members, AOL is wheelin’ and dealin’ with the big boys. Both Microsoft and Netscape have sent out press releases…