... stop! What MS apologists? MS cought the thing pretty quickly and (unfotunately... or maybe not) back in 95 it was already a WWW leader with their Explorer. Back when the Web was evolving, it was Microsoft that kept adding innovations that are now standards. Sure, Mosaic was the first browser, than there was (is?) Navigator with their frames and the blink (wink;) tag, but it was MS who was pioneering with the new technologies.
It was really sad to see Explorer and the 'whole interweb thingy' got aquired by marketing people focused on profits and spreading the MS monpoly. In my opinion IE used to be a great piece of software, probably the only good one that MS had to offer since MS Word 5.1 for Macintosh.
Anyways, back to the subject. I think you got carried away. You're trying to compress whole 10 years of innovation and progress into a couple of sentences. Let me tell you, it's just disrespect for those who were behind the concepts, the technology and the software during that time. That was progress! What we experiance now is stagnation with all this paranoid focus on security. Developement of new ideas has seized.
Slashdot Mirror
...search for common mis-spellings such as "Tienanmen" will yield plenty of photos of tanks.
So I did a Google search and all those pictures of tanks are basically one photo hosted on different sites.
What is this, digg.com with its 10 year old news? It was all over the media back when Apple was making their switch to the new architecture.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Did anyone mirror the site? It seems the link got slashdotted.
... stop! What MS apologists? MS cought the thing pretty quickly and (unfotunately... or maybe not) back in 95 it was already a WWW leader with their Explorer. Back when the Web was evolving, it was Microsoft that kept adding innovations that are now standards. Sure, Mosaic was the first browser, than there was (is?) Navigator with their frames and the blink (wink ;) tag, but it was MS who was pioneering with the new technologies.
It was really sad to see Explorer and the 'whole interweb thingy' got aquired by marketing people focused on profits and spreading the MS monpoly. In my opinion IE used to be a great piece of software, probably the only good one that MS had to offer since MS Word 5.1 for Macintosh.
Anyways, back to the subject. I think you got carried away. You're trying to compress whole 10 years of innovation and progress into a couple of sentences. Let me tell you, it's just disrespect for those who were behind the concepts, the technology and the software during that time. That was progress! What we experiance now is stagnation with all this paranoid focus on security. Developement of new ideas has seized.
... lake spotting
Quit whining.