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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Recovered from Archive.org – Apr 11, 1997 I hate cool lists, why am I doing this? Well, maybe you haven’t seen these ones. Trés Chic, mon frère! What do psychos write about? The Unabomber’s Manifesto Drink Java? Go to Gamelan Need more caffeine?? Try LED flavored. Site for women on…
Recovered from Archive.org – Apr 10, 1997 IBM may license the Apple operating system MacOS. Prediction: It’s the blind leading the dumb. They have both failed separately to topple the Microsoft/Intel monopoly over the PC world. Maybe together they can be less lame. A merger with Apple is seeming more…
Recovered from Archive.org – Apr 9, 1997 DRAM DRAM DRAM! I remember a few months back there was this huge fire (supposedly) in Japan and DRAM went through the roof. 4 meg chips cost about $160 mail order. Today I got a quote in the back of Computer Shopper for…
Recovered from Archive.org – Apr 5, 1997 Just to keep us all up to date, here is the landscape of Online Access choices: America Online: 5 Million customers, crappy browser. (Funny quote from Internet Underground: “Steve Case thinks that Marketing America Online in Europe with just the initials “AOL” is…
Recovered from Archive.org – Apr 3, 1997 There has been a lot of news lately prophesizing the coming of the all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipotent $500 internet box. These internet boxes will be multimedia powered terminals that give the internet a friendlier and certainly cheaper face. The question is, will the public…
Recovered from Archive.org – Apr 2, 1997 Well, isn’t this a strange turn of events. Last week, (six months in net years) Microsoft released Active X controls, a development kit and an alpha version of Internet Explorer 3.0. I thought, hey, now here is Microsoft getting with the program. They…
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,…