[WEB4LIB] Re: Browser birthday of note

[Michael McCulley]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K.G. Schneider" <kgs at bluehighways.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 10:53 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Browser birthday of note


>>
>> Thomas Dowling wrote [in part] :
>> >
>> > (Then they started yapping about the browser becoming the desktop, and
>> > how Java would make the desktop OS irrelevant, and generally doing
>> > everything they could to make themselves a target for You Know Who.)
>> >
>
> But their shenanigans resulted in one of the best books about that era,
> essential reading for web4libber-types: The New, New Thing, by Michael
> Lewis, a highly illuminating portrait of Jim Clark. If you ever found
> yourself trying to explain to board members why *free* things couldn't be
> counted on indefinitely or that people were, in fact, reading more books
> than ever, this book will be at least comforting. If we ever get near a
> craze like that one again, re-read this book immediately so you know what
> you're up against in arguing for boring old library Web services.
>
> Karen G. Schneider
> kgs at bluehighways.com
>
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