Foreign Policy has a reall interesting pice about what was going on today (Dec 29th) in 1999. Looking back on it it looks almost like a different world. Some examples:
Something called Inktomi was the world’s largest search engine.
Everybody was clamoring for the new file-sharing program Napster
llinois State Senator Barack Obama campaigned for a spot in [...]
I saw this video today and it is really interesting. There seems to be some debate about how accurate the video is. The connecencous of most of the commenters that I’ve seen seems to be that this is a pretty broad generalzation and not completely accurate. But alot were say that they had either seen [...]
I weep for you if this makes you laugh as hard as it made me laugh…
… Every time you attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions, the unholy child weeps the blood of virgins, and Russian hackers pwn your webapp. Parsing HTML with regex summons tainted souls into the realm of the living. HTML and [...]
Tap tap tap…
…is this thing on?
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