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This article is a great insight about what was hot 12 years ago - a little time capsule, if you will. The web (or browser to be precise) is mentioned only in pa
by lenni 16y ago
This article is a great insight about what was hot 12 years ago - a little time capsule, if you will. The web (or browser to be precise) is mentioned only in passing; the author could to not have seen that it would be the platform which most of the software innovations (and a significant number of social ones) in the following decade would rely on.
- flomo 16y agoA time capsule into the mind of a 'legacy system' programmer. He's bemoaning Apple finally dropping the last vaporous attempts to keep Hypercard relevant, but the market had moved on years earlier. What was actually hot 12 years ago: Java applets, Macromedia Flash, early dynamic HTML browsers, web scripting languages (ASP/Perl/etc), dot.com stocks. People did understand where the future lay.