From: Stephen D. <sd...@gm...> - 2006-02-25 03:00:16
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On 2/24/06, Bernd Eidenschink <eid...@we...> wrote: > > "The internet never forgets", just found this nice screenshot done 1995: > > http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/1995/11/052/bild4.gif > > Nice browser, nice server, nice HTML :-) That looks like one of them thar new-fangled AJAZ sites I keep hearing about..! :-) If you're into history, I recommend the book High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars.=20 There's a section where Ferguson freaks out because Navisoft is about to launch at the same trade show where he's about to unveil Vermeer FrontPage, subsequently sold to Microsoft for bucket loads of cash. He also highlights nicely what a bunch of... less than nice people VC's and hired CEO's can be. My other frame of reference for this being ArsDigita and their disastrous VC story. A company built on... AOLserver! Great book. Small world. |