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• Quote #366 WWW is the MS-DOS of hypertext systems... -- Erik Naggum
• Quote #459 _I_ think we have not had visitors from other planets because they have tried to decode our character encoding, and concluded that it wouldn't be worth it.
  -- Erik Naggum...
• Quote #295 if you evaluate C++, you still get C, but C gets bigger -- erik naggum
• Quote #294 large, demanding applications are routinely being built in Lisp, and they just work.
  miniscule undertakings in the C++ world are foreshadowed by reams of articles in the popular press, and later hailed as successes of the language, despite regular delays and losses, when the reality is that any successes are restricted to marketing techniques....
• gopher n. A type of Internet service first floated around 1991 and obsolesced around 1995 by the World Wide Web.
  Gopher presents a menuing interface to a tree or graph of link...
• Quote #44 I'm wary of managers who want to "comprehend easily" any arbitrarily complicated topic.
  ake operating systems. managers choose Microsoft because everybody else does....
• BITNET /bit'net/ n., obs. [acronym: Because It's Time NETwork] Everybody's least favorite piece of the network (see the network) - until AOL happened.
  The BITNET hosts were a collection of IBM dinosaurs and VAXen (the latter with lobotomized comm hardware) that communicate using 80-character EBCDIC card images (see eighty-column mind)...
• Someone else stole your IP address, call the Internet detectives!