Entries from Geeky Baldisms tagged with 'Internet'
The Silverlight Blight
Problem: Flash sucks. Microsoft solution: create a proprietary standard that doesn't suck quite as much. It will work great on XP and Vista. Oh, and Mac has made some serious inroads on our desktop, we'd better make it play nice...
AOL in 1994
It was the summer of 1994. I had managed to install a 2400-baud modem in my PC running DOS 6.22 (no easy task in itself, ever heard of a DMA interrupt?) and was feeling my oats. I plugged the 3...
Mirsky's WOTW
It was like a glorious fireball streaking across the worldwide web's sky. It was so bright and beautiful that you knew it wouldn't live long. It was Mirsky's Worst of the Web. My web surfing experiences began in 1995. One...
Shark Tank, One of My favorite Online Stops
This one's for you, Anonymous (for Obvious Reasons), THX1138, Fatman, Mad Hatter, Cowgirls (both the original, and #2), Chicago, Roland, Bogey1, bear in a box (who works somewhere on the other side of the International Date Line), fluffyjacket1984 (who has...
ZDNet, What's up with Ed Bott and His Comment Section?
Some of my earliest, happiest memories of computing involve the fine folks over at ZDNet. From the mega-cool PCMag utilities to the excellent informative journalism that is found in their print publications, my overall impression of this publishing house is...
Usenet: It's Not Dead, But It's Coughing Up Blood
One of the earliest services set up on the newfangled internet way back when was Usenet. Here's a brief history from Wikipedia: Usenet (a contraction of user network) is a global, decentralized, distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a...
What's Up with this Microsoft/Yahoo Thing Anyway?
So Microsoft wants Yahoo. Should I give a hoot? Not on the surface. Yahoo lost my interest years ago. The ads, absent from the cool Yahoo of old, became overbearing. So I switched to Alta Vista, then Google, where I...
Bored of the Rings
I discovered the Internet Movie Database ten years ago. In case you've been living in a cave, it's the premier user-driven site for opinions and commentary about movies. And I must say that I agree with the majority of its...
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