The Scape of Net

Posted on Thu 19 October 2023 in Technical • Tagged with anecdotage, Netscape

A touch of #anecdotage: I worked at Easynet in the early days of the UK commercial Internet, and we packaged #Netscape browser in our welcome pack as it was initially free for non-commercial purposes and we stated we were providing it as an option for browsing the web rather than …


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On microblogging

Posted on Thu 31 August 2023 in Technical • Tagged with culture, blogging, anecdotage, microblogging

On his blog, Terence Eden wrote about the Time I Invented Twitter and it's an interesting proposition which would have just been slightly ahead of its time in 2003. Microblogging probably needed Internet enabled phones to take off, like social networking in general.

Douglas Adams was a very intelligent man …


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