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 Friday, March 14, 2003
In keeping with the 10-year anniversary of Mosaic, here's some navel gazing on CNET: What if Netscape had won? I completely disagree with this guy. Microsoft has tried as hard as Netscape would have to make the web and the Internet more important than the software platform, even if it's been somewhat inadvertantly. Look at the proliferation of crazy web-platform software out there. Also, if Netscape had "won," we probably still wouldn't have seen the whole Gecko-style Mozilla browser revolution until this past year. So I'm not exactly sure what innovation we're missing out on. 1:49:34 PM () 
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The web is effectively ten years old today. [Slashdot]. I remember Sara Amato dragging us over to the Oregon State Library sometime in the summer of 1993 to see this crazy "Mosaic" thing running on one of their X terminals. At the time, I was more fascinated with how they'd built in menu items for things like "finger," "archie," and other internet tools of the time. It was a cool harbinger of what was to come. Of course, my dorky first web page included inline XBMs, which are basically text files of C code, where the C code defines and initializes an array that contains the bitmap. Yikes!
P.S. Oh, and I called it a HyPlan back then. Remember that? 1:29:35 PM ()
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