Who Knows How to Use Netscape? Me!
May 26, 2010 at 3:41 pm 4 comments
If you ever doubted that everything you post lives online forever, check this out. When our business was growing like gangbusters at Lycos in the dot-com years, one of my projects was to produce our help pages along with the fabulous Heidi LaFleche. That was in 1998.
Now it is 2010. And guess what – it lives! (at least some of it) I would recognize this killer prose anywhere:
It was a beautiful, primitive time before numbered lists – or apparently even bullets – were invented. And the Smashing Pumpkins ruled the airwaves, while we learned the power of boolean searches.
To paraphrase a famous TV commercial: it’s 2010 – do you know where your content is posted?
Advertisement
My name is Adam Gross. 
1.
Heidi LaFleche | May 26, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Hi Adam, I’m smiling as I recall this project. I had never heard of “robots dot text” before you came to my cube very earnestly saying we had to write a help file about it. I also remember our main competitors as Alta Vista and Magellan. Google wasn’t even on the radar. Glory days! Ah, how a decade changes everything. Thanks for sharing.
2.
agross | May 26, 2010 at 8:14 pm
And thank you for agreeing to collaborate that fateful day! Good times.
3.
Kelly | May 27, 2010 at 9:34 am
“It was a beautiful, primitive time before numbered lists – or apparently even bullets – were invented.”
Classic. Adam, what is this strange “Home” button (quotes are yours) of which you speak?
4.
agross | May 27, 2010 at 11:13 am
The “world wide web” is going to be big, mark my words