May 19, 2009: First Server

dar512 · 05-19-2009, 10:53 AM

My 15 minutes of near fame. I worked at Spyglass in Champaign Illinois just after they licensed the Mosaic source from NCSA. It was an exciting time. The web was just starting to take off.

Then Spyglass licensed the source to Microsoft. Microsoft started giving their browser away, and the browser market disappeared.

Unless they've done a total rewrite on either of them, I have little bits of code in both IE and Outlook. (I also worked at CE software, who licensed the source for their calendar app to Microsoft. And the bottom dropped out of the calendar app market.)

Gravdigr · 05-19-2009, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by dar512

Unless they've done a total rewrite on either of them, I have little bits of code in both IE and Outlook.

I know it's not all your fault, but, can we blame you?

dar512 · 05-19-2009, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

I know it's not all your fault, but, can we blame you?

All the code I wrote was creative, well-crafted, finely engineered, and bullet-proof. In short, yeah go ahead.

05-19-2009, 10:53 AM	#1
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	My 15 minutes of near fame. I worked at Spyglass in Champaign Illinois just after they licensed the Mosaic source from NCSA. It was an exciting time. The web was just starting to take off. Then Spyglass licensed the source to Microsoft. Microsoft started giving their browser away, and the browser market disappeared. Unless they've done a total rewrite on either of them, I have little bits of code in both IE and Outlook. (I also worked at CE software, who licensed the source for their calendar app to Microsoft. And the bottom dropped out of the calendar app market.) __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

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