27th
December
1999
“The Personal Open Directory calls the Netscape Open Directory (a mirror of the Open Directory Project, and a site which is better networked that ODP itself) to provide you and your users with a Web experience which looks like they’ve never left your site. It isn’t done with homely frames or with the need to parse the huge RDFs from ODP itself, but rather grabbing the data in real-time from NOD.”
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27th
December
1999
“Pablo Picasso once said that good art is created, but great art is stolen. On the Internet, the same holds true. Good code is created, but great code is copied over and over. The Internet was created from open source software, code that people can freely use to build new code, to run their networks, to create a new business, or to build a service that people can use.” They wrote an algorithm for a Hacker Tax Credit. Check it out.
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27th
December
1999
“Typography has a long history going back before the time of the Egyptian pyramids. Most of the twenty-six letters of our alphabet are simplified drawings of the idea-pictures they were over five thousand years ago. Generations of artists and scribes have drawn, shaped and slowly changed the characters until they now bear little resemblance to the pictures they once were.”
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