Now This, Back Then
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Browse through the archives and avail yourself of web culture: Did someone prank William Safire when explaining tech jargon (“cybersex gritch”)? Should people say “og” to shorten the word weblog? (Also, Pokemon and South Park remain popular.) Pop culture: The Sixth Sense is very well done, The Matrix DVD is on sale at Amazon, and if you have not seen The Iron Giant you must drop everything and go see it now. Politics: There’s a presidential election next year, but does it really matter which party you vote for? The political cartoon, Tom The Dancing Bug, linked in that post suggests the upcoming election will have consequences for 2000 years. What do you make of Donald Trump’s Presidential bid?
You might even find some familiar faces. Twenty years ago today, Steve mentioned a St. Louis meetup with jessamyn. Steve also links to Lake Effect Weblog, by MeFi’s Own dhartung. Steve likes MeFi’s Own jscalzi’s take on the Gap’s orange vests.
Most links in the Now This posts are dead, so you may wish to use a browser extension like Resurrect Pages to retrieve them from the Internet Archive.
Kinda previously (April 17, 2001)
webobjects) can result in felicitous finds. “WebObjects offers every benefit for … Internet applications” quotes Steve Bogart’s blog post for August 11, 1999. Yes, Now This is one of the original weblogs. (Just ask the Chicago Tribune in their September 7, 1999 article.)Browse through the archives and avail yourself of web culture: Did someone prank William Safire when explaining tech jargon (“cybersex gritch”)? Should people say “og” to shorten the word weblog? (Also, Pokemon and South Park remain popular.) Pop culture: The Sixth Sense is very well done, The Matrix DVD is on sale at Amazon, and if you have not seen The Iron Giant you must drop everything and go see it now. Politics: There’s a presidential election next year, but does it really matter which party you vote for? The political cartoon, Tom The Dancing Bug, linked in that post suggests the upcoming election will have consequences for 2000 years. What do you make of Donald Trump’s Presidential bid?
You might even find some familiar faces. Twenty years ago today, Steve mentioned a St. Louis meetup with jessamyn. Steve also links to Lake Effect Weblog, by MeFi’s Own dhartung. Steve likes MeFi’s Own jscalzi’s take on the Gap’s orange vests.
Most links in the Now This posts are dead, so you may wish to use a browser extension like Resurrect Pages to retrieve them from the Internet Archive.
Kinda previously (April 17, 2001)
Speaking of WebObjects: I have the pleasure of working with pretty much everyone (well, besides the ones who retired with Too Much Money) responsible for making WebObjects happen, and probably surprising to many of you, those who are still making it happen.
While it never quite caught on in the general world, it’s still used internally and it’s an integral part of a machine that generates more money than you’d believe. No, more than even that.
This year (last month, actually) marks my 20 years in the online software business, which pretty much coincides with my “being online everyday” anniversary as well. Reading these articles, I’m getting more of a “wait, didn’t this stuff just happen the other day??” vibe than I’d like to admit 😭
posted by sideshow at 8:21 AM on September 13, 2019 [6 favorites]
While it never quite caught on in the general world, it’s still used internally and it’s an integral part of a machine that generates more money than you’d believe. No, more than even that.
This year (last month, actually) marks my 20 years in the online software business, which pretty much coincides with my “being online everyday” anniversary as well. Reading these articles, I’m getting more of a “wait, didn’t this stuff just happen the other day??” vibe than I’d like to admit 😭
posted by sideshow at 8:21 AM on September 13, 2019 [6 favorites]
I miss Lake Effect.
posted by Chrysostom at 8:05 PM on September 13, 2019 [1 favorite]
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