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The Long Strange Trip to Java (1996)
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- bobinator30 14y agoand then there's this: http://www.salon.com/1999/12/22/naughtonwalks/ http://www.salon.com/1999/12/22/naughtonwalks/
- guelo 14y agoAs for the rest of his story, Naughton went on to build some of the most successful web properties of the late 90s before having his life derailed by an FBI online sex sting.
- achille 14y agoHere's a video of James Gosling showing the the Star7 PDA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg8OBYixL0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg8OBYixL0 It's absolutely mindblowing what they built in one year in 1992(!). It had had a touch screen and inertial scrolling.
- gst 14y agoWouldn't that be prior art to Apple's scrolling patent?
- monochromatic 14y agoPrior art? Sure. Invalidating prior art? Well, that's a very different question.
- untitledly 14y agoSadly the modern legal system is owned by whoever has the most money to throw at lawyers.
- monochromatic 14y agoWhat are you even talking about?
- ww520 14y agoThese are true hackers! It is absolutely mind boggling how far ahead they were 20 years ago.
- Someone 14y agoNice, but more a research vehicle than a PDA. About three times as thick as the later Newton, which wasn't known for its thinness, and does not look battery operated yet (scroll to 8:45 in the video) Also, 1992 was late for touch screens. Plato (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato_computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato_computer) had one in 1972, and wasn't even the first (http://billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html http://billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html) So, like almost everything in technology, once you zoom out enough, things that seemed outliers start to fit in patterns.
- mediocregopher 14y agoI'm no javascript expert so this is probably not the prettiest way of doing this, but: javascript:void(document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].bgColor="#eeeeee");void(document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].text="#333333"); Makes the article readable
- jrajav 14y agoIf you want to set up a quick way to make any article readable, you can make a bookmarklet (Javascript bookmark that runs on the current page) for it here: http://readable-app.appspot.com/setup.html http://readable-app.appspot.com/setup.html Not affiliated.
- lmm 14y agoThat won't let me set the width above 80%, so I prefer http://evernote.com/clearly/ http://evernote.com/clearly/ . (Again, not affiliated)
- cynwoody 14y agoOr open the Inspector and add some rules for body: margin: auto 20%; background-color: whitesmoke; color: black;
- erik757 14y agoHugely exciting to read things like this. It feels like a lot of the early craziness that made things fun is missing from the Valley today. Sun, and the group of people they managed to attract, doesn't get enough credit for the remarkable company they were. RIP.
- nicolaus 14y agoThe sad part about this is how they kicked Bill Joy off the team because he wanted Java to have closures, functions as first class types, etc and nobody else did.