2 pointsby 1vuio0pswjnm74 hours ago1 comment
  • 1vuio0pswjnm73 hours ago
    "Marc Andreesen was the one who first displayed pictures on the Internet."

    I prefer using the internet text-only

    "He was a student and part-time assistant at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in 1992, when Internet browsers were not user-friendly and only used by academics and engineers who had access to certain expensive machines named Unix."

    Perhaps the author never shared a copy of this article with Burrows before publishing, or maybe The Cardinal had no editor who knew what UNIX meant

    This was in 2007. Not long ago, IMHO

    I "had access to certain expensive machines called UNIX" before 1992, as an undergradute student, neither an academic nor an engineer

    I'm not sure "user-friendly" has much meaning anymore. Today, software that is easy-to-use is routinely "user-hostile"