46 - Browsers

Published: Sept. 4, 2017, 2:19 p.m.

b'This week Rafael and Jeremy, two refugees of the browser wars, share tales of sacrifice and chivalry from the early days of the internet.\\n\\nA Muppet Family Christmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojtGHXsTXmU\\nBike sharing in China https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/02/world/asia/china-beijing-dockless-bike-share.html?mcubz=1&_r=0\\nBrowser wars https://www.wired.com/2009/01/awesome-infogra/\\nMosaic browser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)\\nHotline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Communications\\nSerial Box https://twitter.com/peteavey/status/24423749486903296\\nSVG https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG\\nWebkit https://webkit.org/\\nFirefox https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/\\nImagemagick https://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php\\nWebVR https://webvr.info/\\nNetscape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape\\nAOL CDs https://techcrunch.com/2010/12/27/aol-discs-90s/\\nCompuserve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe\\nApple eWorld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld\\nInformation Superhighway, 1991 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk82TI92GO4\\nInformation Superhighway, attributed to Nam June Paik and Al Gore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighway\\nAdobe Flash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Player\\nWhy Chrome uses so much freaking RAM http://lifehacker.com/why-chrome-uses-so-much-freaking-ram-1702537477\\nThe Story of Firefox OS https://medium.com/@bfrancis/the-story-of-firefox-os-cb5bf796e8fb\\nMobile First design https://www.uxpin.com/studio/blog/a-hands-on-guide-to-mobile-first-design/\\nSteve Jobs promotes Web 2.0 / Ajax apps (no SDK) https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=8Vq993Td6ys\\nApp Fatigue https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/03/app-fatigue/\\nMark Zuckerberg: Our Biggest Mistake Was Betting Too Much On HTML5 https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/mark-zuckerberg-our-biggest-mistake-with-mobile-was-betting-too-much-on-html5/\\nReact Native https://facebook.github.io/react-native/\\nRafael\\u2019s new app, Here Hear http://www.newrafael.com/herehear/\\n** Commercial Break ** Reflections on the Burden of Men https://www.rotbom.com/\\nJack Conte on reality of being famous on YouTube https://www.ted.com/talks/jack_conte_how_artists_can_finally_get_paid_in_the_digital_age\\nMicroserfs, Douglas Coupland, 1995 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2748.Microserfs\\nJODI http://v2.nl/archive/organizations/jodi.org\\nThe Web Browser as Aesthetic https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/z4yagw/digart-the-web-browser-as-aesthetic-framework-why-digital-art-today-looks-different\\nText Free Browsing http://textfreebrowsing.com/\\nKobo https://www.kobo.com/\\nA/B testing and Multi-armed bandits https://vwo.com/blog/multi-armed-bandit-algorithm/\\nTinder https://www.gotinder.com/\\nWhy doing less drives more conversions https://neilpatel.com/blog/less-drives-conversions/\\nOlia Lialina, Summer, 2013 http://www.emiliegervais.com/olia/summer/\\nRhizome\\u2019s Net Art Anthology https://anthology.rhizome.org/\\nThe Browser Wars are back https://www.wired.com/2015/09/thompson-3/\\nTorrent files https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent_file'