Posted by Scott Laird
Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:35:20 GMT
Yesterday, Slashdot pointed out that “The Web” just turned 16. The first web page at CERN went up in November of 1990, about a month after I first used the Internet.
I heard rumblings about the web off and on for the next few years, but it wasn’t really interesting until NCSA Mosaic was first released in 1993. I remember reading the release announcement for Mosaic 1.0 and being amazed–wow, a graphical viewer that could handle fetching and displaying multiple file formats over multiple network protocols. How cool. I uploaded one of the first (the first?) Mosaic binaries for Linux a month or so later.
I still remember days where I started browsing at the NCSA’s “what’s new” page and finished when I’d read every single page that I could discover on the Internet.
Tags history, mosaic | 1 comment
Posted by Scott Laird
Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:45:29 GMT
Re-reading my ”One Year of Blog” post reminded me of another anniversary that I’d forgotten: I’ve now been using Linux for over 12 years. I started in mid-August 1992, with Linux 0.97. It’s grown a bit since then; 0.97’s tar.gz file was around 288 kB, while Linux 2.6.8 is over 44 MB. That’s a factor of 154 growth in 12 years, or a compounded rate of around 50% per year. At that rate, the compressed kernel source will be too big to fit onto a CD by 2011.
Posted in Linux, Personal | Tags history, linux | no comments
Posted by Scott Laird
Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:11:10 GMT
My first post here was one year ago today. I’m sort of amazed that this blog is still going strong 257 entries and 113 comments later. When I was younger, I doubt it would have lasted a month. Apparently I’ve grown. I’ve enjoyed having an outlet for product reviews, interesting tech finds, Asterisk configuration examples, and all of the interesting bits that float through my life. Judging by my web server access logs, I’m not alone–I’m certainly not getting zillions of hits per day, but I have a few steady readers, and Google brings in boatloads of people searching for answers. Hopefully I’ve been able to help a few of them.
To commemorate the occasion, I’m going to post some statistics.
Most widely read posts
Most frequent referrers
Most common browsers
| Rank | Browser | Hits |
|---|
| 1 | Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) | 8518 |
| 2 | Mozilla/5.0 [en] (Windows NT 5.0, U) | 7614 |
| 3 | Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) | 6919 |
| 4 | Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) | 3830 |
| 5 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1; aggregator:NewsMonster; http://www.newsmonster.org/) Gecko/20021130 | 2479 |
| 6 | NewsGator/2.0 (http://www.newsgator.com; Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322.573) | 2456 |
| 7 | NetNewsWire/1.0.9b1 (Mac OS X; http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/) | 2381 |
| 8 | NetNewsWire/1.0.6 (Mac OS X; http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/) | 2009 |
| 9 | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/124 (KHTML, like Gecko) | 2004 |
| 10 | Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) | 1926 |
Posted in Blog stuff | Tags blog, history | 2 comments
Posted by Scott Laird
Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:16:48 GMT
So, a comparison of two computers:
| Feature | Computer A | Computer B |
|---|
| CPU | 90 MHz 32-bit CPU | 132 MHz 32-bit CPU |
| RAM | 8 MB | 32 MB |
| Storage | 320 MB | 288 MB |
| Weight | 15 lbs | 4 oz |
Computer A is the Pentium 90 that I bought in 1994, and Computer B is my cell phone. Don’t you just love Moore’s Law?
Posted in Phones | Tags history, mpx200, phone | 2 comments
