...was a shit venue full of tourists and yuppies with enough free standing room for a half-dozen people.
About 100 registered. If any of them did show up, they clearly did the same as we did - scope the joint, saw not a single likely Slashdotter, and fucked off somewhere else.
Of course, we're a long way ahead in the timezones here. Let's see if more than a couple dozen people on the entire planet see something other than a complete fuck-up. I doubt it.
Without a reasonably strong browser in popular use, how on earth can Netscape.com attract visitors? It doesn't work to simply have other AOL-TW companies plug Netscape.com on air or in print because users associate (for example) CNN with CNN.com. Which, if memory serves, is why Pathfinder was such a roaring success.
The premise of this posting is wrong. AOL cannot get mega-traffic without browser integration. How else do you think MSN gets so much traffic? It sure isn't the killer search engine.
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...was a shit venue full of tourists and yuppies with enough free standing room for a half-dozen people.
About 100 registered. If any of them did show up, they clearly did the same as we did - scope the joint, saw not a single likely Slashdotter, and fucked off somewhere else.
Of course, we're a long way ahead in the timezones here. Let's see if more than a couple dozen people on the entire planet see something other than a complete fuck-up. I doubt it.
Some other interesting post-Christmas tidbits are popping up, too
Yeah, at my house they're all the fucking Xmas presents that didn't show up in December.
Without a reasonably strong browser in popular use, how on earth can Netscape.com attract visitors? It doesn't work to simply have other AOL-TW companies plug Netscape.com on air or in print because users associate (for example) CNN with CNN.com. Which, if memory serves, is why Pathfinder was such a roaring success.
The premise of this posting is wrong. AOL cannot get mega-traffic without browser integration. How else do you think MSN gets so much traffic? It sure isn't the killer search engine.