Tag: Random

  • 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 tale nightengale? Image. Man, I…

  • Cool Sites (1996)

    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 the Web, and a superhero…

  • 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, Microsoft’s internet dominance! Microsoft until…

  • 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. (Ooooh, holds the world up!)Basically…

  • 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 than that of USWeb, which…

  • 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, but today…who cares if Microsoft…