In what might be the department of too much information (TMI), but what feels like a delighful contrast, here’s a screenshot someone on the team sent me of what the Yahoo! Personals start page looked like back in the dark ages of 1998, before there really even was a Personals product outside of Yahoo! classifieds.
Susan sez: Takes me right back to the days of, oh, 15 tags or so in plain ol’ HTML, eh?
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I started reading digitally more than 10 years ago, with Amy Gahran’s encouragement (she gave me her generation 3 Kindle). Reading really took off in 2017 when I discovered Overdrive, the library app (thanks, Lisa Williams). This past year, I borrowed more than 150 books via Overdrive and the Berkeley Public Library, with maybe… Continue Reading
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Watching Breakfast at Tiffany’s the other night, I smirked at the constant smoking by every character: waking up, at breakfast, after a meal, walking down the street, in bed, before going to sleep. If there wasn’t a cigarette in hand, nothing was happening. And the same thing is true in so many movies of the era,… Continue Reading
I miss flat HTML sites and the magic of include files. Sigh.