On January 15, Wikipedia will turn 10. Yes, 10 years old! Looking back over time, the search engine game has been one of the the most rapid evolutions on the internet. Gopher dates back to the earliest days of the internet. Primarily a text-base (command line) interface, it severed well when academia was the primary [...]
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Wikipedia turns 10
January 12, 2011The cyclical high-tech companies
January 5, 2011Throughout my career, I’ve seen behemoth companies that were on the top of the world and had the world beating a path to their door, only to be displaced by upstarts. Wordstar (anyone remember this) owned the word processing market but was replaced by Word Perfect, and then Microsoft Word. Same thing with spreadsheets: Visicalc [...]
