Category: History
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Inventing things that already exist
I think Al Gore still gets flack for claiming to have invented the internet, and it’s been pretty well established that he didn’t actually say that, but that’s OK, because I’ve invented a few things in my career too. The difference is, my inventions already existed. I invented relational databases. It was 1993 and I […]
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Silly Javascript tricks and the hunting thereof
Joel Spolsky has a theory that Google is starting to take a look at bounce rates when judging search result authority. The theory (which may be resolved, at least for now, by the time you read this) is that if a user does a search, clicks a result, and comes back to Google really quickly, […]
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Early adopter TV ads: The Commodore VIC-20
I swear, I was doing serious research when I stumbled across this: I only have vague memories of this era, but it’s one where I’d love to have a time machine to go back and study the marketing fully immersed in the culture but knowing what I know now. I’d need some kind of “8 […]