Time Capsule
For years I have saved the September 1996 issue of Air Canada's in-flight magazine, because apenwarr and I, for reasons that have long since become irrelevant, are pictured in it.
This issue featured several articles about the high-tech world at the time, and I now find it highly amusing. There are short articles about Michael Cowpland and James Gosling, back when Corel and Java respectively both held promise. Remember that?
"Many executives are still a little skeptical about the Internet. They believe their companies should be on-line, but they are not sure why." Remember that?
"The word 'travel' appears in more than one million World Wide Web sites, which is daunting enough to discourage even the most intrepid cybernaut from searching for information." Remember that? Google gives me 322 million such sites now, in a relatively non-daunting manner.
"Will e-mail make people more or less literate? More, I believe, but I don't know for sure." Jury's still out, I think.
"Even if Explorer is better than Netscape and the PR more obnoxious than Windows 95's, smart money has it that people will stick to what they know: Netscape." That was back when Netscape had 80% of the browser market share.
Miscellanea
Good luck in all your post-monkey endeavours, louie!
I will be in Toronto next Friday and Saturday, and then in Waterloo until the following Tuesday. Anyone who wants to meet up is encouraged to give me a shout.
Tonight is the first meeting of the NDG Dining Gastronauts.