I remember getting a ppp connection specifically so that I could start using mosaic and drop lynx.
Netscape doesn't deserve credit for inventing the web, but I will say that Netscape deserves a fair degree of credit for the difference between those top-to-bottom gray background+image sites that we enjoyed with mosaic to the current web experience. The developers at netscape contributed heavily to the innovation that occurred from 94-98 or so. By implementing tags that weren't yet standardized, introducing javascript support (although I still remember the hell of maintaining separate code bases for the different beta releases of javascript), and stylesheets- they really forced a vision on the industry. I think netscape may deserve credit for the first application servers as well, although I cant remember the exact sequence of app servers that came to market.
Netscape isn't above reproach- they stole a lot from Mosaic, and didn't really play that nicely with the IEEE or WWWC, but I miss the rapid evolution they engendered. Is it just me, or does the web today look pretty much the same as the way it did the day IE5 took marketshare?
It's a little ironic that he makes this comment about remixing when he was the literary voice of the industrial subculture- a movement whose music took sampling to great lengths.
The severed heads and skinny puppy stopped using heavy amounts of borrowed source material because it wasn't legally pragmatic. Maybe labeling it as "remixed" is all that is required to clear the legal hurdles that make audio collage so impractical, but it seems to me that the further you move into the purely creative with this form, the more likely you are to find lawyers at your doorstep. I think composition with borrowed source material will continue to be only financially viable for underground music- which is probably a lot of the reason it still seems "edgy" when sampling has been around for so long.
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I remember getting a ppp connection specifically so that I could start using mosaic and drop lynx. Netscape doesn't deserve credit for inventing the web, but I will say that Netscape deserves a fair degree of credit for the difference between those top-to-bottom gray background+image sites that we enjoyed with mosaic to the current web experience. The developers at netscape contributed heavily to the innovation that occurred from 94-98 or so. By implementing tags that weren't yet standardized, introducing javascript support (although I still remember the hell of maintaining separate code bases for the different beta releases of javascript), and stylesheets- they really forced a vision on the industry. I think netscape may deserve credit for the first application servers as well, although I cant remember the exact sequence of app servers that came to market. Netscape isn't above reproach- they stole a lot from Mosaic, and didn't really play that nicely with the IEEE or WWWC, but I miss the rapid evolution they engendered. Is it just me, or does the web today look pretty much the same as the way it did the day IE5 took marketshare?
It's a little ironic that he makes this comment about remixing when he was the literary voice of the industrial subculture- a movement whose music took sampling to great lengths. The severed heads and skinny puppy stopped using heavy amounts of borrowed source material because it wasn't legally pragmatic. Maybe labeling it as "remixed" is all that is required to clear the legal hurdles that make audio collage so impractical, but it seems to me that the further you move into the purely creative with this form, the more likely you are to find lawyers at your doorstep. I think composition with borrowed source material will continue to be only financially viable for underground music- which is probably a lot of the reason it still seems "edgy" when sampling has been around for so long.