social meltdown sites

Posted by on May 10, 2008 in Archive, Web design

So much for social networking sites. I just tried again to update my MySpace site because last week when I tried to do it the site was so busy it just crawled to stop and I had to get off. This week – same story. I don’t know how much longer I can go on persevering with god awful websites, whose main goal seems to be the serving of ads rather than customers. Why is it when MySpace churns to a stop (as it frequently does) that for a whole minute, while my browser waits for MySpace to decide if it’s too much trouble to actually serve the content I asked for, that nevertheless...

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Tim, nice and anything but dim

Posted by on May 9, 2008 in Archive

On an otherwise unremarkable day, April 30th 1993, something happened which changed the world. On that day Tim Berners Lee and his employer, CERN, released the World Wide Web (WWW) from its licensing bonds and set it loose upon the Internet as a free technology. The impact of this was almost immediate, leading to the birth of the web as we know it, albeit in prototype form. I started a career as a web designer the following year, so I owe a lot to Tim and CERN. Looking back over those 15 years it’s obvious the web has changed out of all recognition, and while it is still a publishing medium...

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