The History of Video Games:2002.01.24

The History of Video Games: "The history of video games is not just about people. It's also about companies and ironies. Atari was an American company with a Japanese name, and the Japanese company Sega was started by an American." (Link via #!/usr/bin/girl)

Ed Yourdon gets it. Do you get it too? Finally, a resource that thinks like we do. No wonder they call it the Web.

An excellent article and interview on O'Reilly discusses how the Wayback machine works. It's a blast to find things you created online years ago. It also helps to give a sense of continuity that's been missing so far on the web. Now, we have a history that we can see.

Rebecca gets the theory: find a niche, and write for it. Damn, I wish I'd thought of it first.

And finally, an overheard conversation that scares me, too. Was 1987 really so long ago?

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