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July 07, 2007
Is Alex Mocking Me?
After sending him a 4 word subject, 1 word intro, and 1 link email, Alex responded with this gem. I believe he might be mocking the way I sometimes reply to simple questions. Hmm. No more links from me for his girlfriend, Jenny.
From: Jeff Vyduna
Subject: Has Jenny seen these?
| Fun.
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| http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6045947
Nice. I appreciated the pun. Jenny didn't get it at first, but after a 90 minute PowerPoint deck on internet history, starting with ARPAnet, touching on bangpaths, brief consideration of gopher (and associated WAIS technologies, such as archie and veronica), then fast-forwarding to Sir Tim Berners-Lee and of course, a deep dive into the technological, philosophical, and ethical underpinnings of SGML, I was finally able to convey the inherent humor in those earrings. Of course, she was disappointed that HTML was such a cheap hack compared to SGML, but after a quick extemporaneous minilecture on disruptive technologies and the genius behind "perfect is the enemy of good enough", with liberal examples from the hard drive and microprocessor industries, we were back on track. Afterwords, at the roundtable discussion, We both agreed that the advent of CSS and separating content from presentation was a nice shoutout towards the purity of vision originally put forth by Berners-Lee. Just for completeness' sake, I concluded the deck with a survey of technology on the horizon, such as Web 2.0, the semantic web, and intertwingularity in general.
I think she really enjoyed it.
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Posted by Jeff at July 7, 2007 12:54 AM
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