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On Monday 28 January 2002 02:59 pm, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > As of last week, the number of .com name registration renewals > began to decline. Amazon.com made a profit of 1 cent a share. > AOL is bidding for Red Hat but why does a media company need a > software services company? Everyone is rethinking things in > the face of competitive pressures. Ask not what you can do for the network, but rather, what can the network do for you! > What is happening today is that people are looking at the basics > of Internet systems and inquiring where possible improvements can > be made. Yep. Hypes over. Time for stagnated reality to settle in for a bit while people digest the meal they've been fed. It's funny, because as Len pointed out a while ago 2001 and 1994 don't seem *that* much different from a technology perspective. This hit me when I realised the original charter of XML still hadn't really been fulfilled, and that docs.sun.com is *still* kick-ass technology. Feels like we've been kidding ourselves. > I was navigating with telnet before a web browser was a gleam > in DARPA's eye. It wasn't as easy and it definitely wasn't well > coordinated or as fixed on a single display system. Yeah, but I could remember all the good FTP sites then... (ouch, I just remembered FTP->mail gateways too...)
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