I don't think there are many people out there interested in them, but anyway, here they are,

My favourite links


HTML ("Best invention since e-mail - thanks to the Swiss team in Geneve")

Netscape ("The browsers aren't that important for us" - Marc Andreessen in Nov.96)

Java ("I would never ever load a program over the Internet and rely on such a language" - Bill Gates two weeks before licencing Java)

JavaScript ("Much faster than Java - but has its limits")

VRML ("Think about walking through a world - not watching pictures of it"):

VDO (A kind of RealVideo - needs transfer rates above 14.4k ):

RealAudio + RealVideo (it's gettin' better all the time...):

QuickTime (Well, I think the video files are still too big - waiting for QT3.0?!):

PNG (Ping - Will it really sometime replace the GIF format?!)

JPEG (No, they're not sleeping - wait for even more improvements)

Microsoft ("The NetComputer has no chance on the market" - 4 months before presenting their own prototype)

CGI (How long will it survive? - Heard about Netscape's and Microsoft's and Sun's solutions...)

Databases (what would the Web be without this?!)

Apple (still good for surprises)

Be ("One processor per person is not enough" - ok, now they left the hardware train)


(c) Christian Helfrich