Forever is a long time
On the Internet, the past isn’t that old.
Tag Archives: History
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#140 Independence
The declaration of independence as tweets.
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Dotcom crash was 10 years ago
A quick take on my recollection of the dotcom era and crash, 10 years ago.
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The Cloud Wars
The cloud wars will pick two camps against each others: on one side, advocates of applications running on the desktop; on the other advocates of applications running in a browser.
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Coins to QQ at Web 2.0
More recent trends could highlight some hypothetical futures for currency.
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Is Techmeme myopic?
I’m a big fan of TechMeme, a web aggregation service that provides, at a glance, a few of what’s being discussed in the technology-focused part of the blogosphere. It has allowed me to unsubscribe from a large number of RSS feeds that were providing me with redundant information and I’ve long hoped for a version […]
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Standards as social contracts
Looking at the efforts Dave Winer is undertaking in terms of getting OPML to become yet another standard, I’ve been thinking about how formats get adopted. The key insight I came up with is that standards are actually a form of social contract and increasingly, data formats is following the same path. Looking at the […]
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Microsoft Loves RSS
A major win for RSS as Microsoft announces support for the format
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Reality sets in
Finally, investors are starting to realize that not everything is dotcom land is rotten and are starting to compare dotcom businesses to more traditional ones. If you consider the old axiom that only one in five business start-ups succeed, you may come to realize that the 90s were not necessarily as bad as some have […]
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Double Trouble for Deja.com
“For sale, Internet historical documents and legal trouble. Call Deja.com for details.” This is not exactly the way Deja.com presented themselves but ultimately, this may be what transpires from their recent attempt to put the Usenet archives on sale. Usenet History For those of you who have never heard of Usenet, here’s a quick definition […]
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1994-2000: How Things Have Changed
Looking at the things that changed on the Internet between 1994 and 2000.