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11 Oct 2024 15:19:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: RIP Gary Gygax  
From: Invisible
Date: 10 Mar 2008 04:43:04
Message: <47d502a8@news.povray.org>
Tim Cook wrote:

> 1993, surfing the web was *not* generally faster.  The web was this 
> strange new thing, people used gifs more often than jpegs, *didn't* use 
> img size tags so the browser (if it had the ability, given the 
> attributes) would know how to do page layout so you didn't see anything 
> until the page finished loading, had background images on every page 
> whether it was useful or not, loaded MIDI or wav files to play at full 
> volume, and not split their site into useful subsections so you just had 
> one long long page...
> 
> ...great heavens, I just described the average MySpace page.
> 
> *bangs head against wall*

I almost want to frame this post and put it on my wall...

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