1st
January
2000
“With the recent proliferation of boneheaded top-whatever lists of the millennium in every magazine that exists, not to mention the public’s reborn fondness for bongload-enriched list-making (VH1’s The List springs to mind), it seems like the human race is hoping to use a few choice summaries of the last thousand years’ very best in plumbing inventions, polka albums, and baked goods to stitch the meaning of the last thousand years into a nice bite-sized package. Hey, if you’re a student of history and/or have any moral structure whatsoever, I’m sure you feel the way I do: This millennium pretty much sucked, and making a list of its 10,000 best footwear inventions does little to take the edge off the big scary Third One.”
posted in History | Permalink |
1st
January
2000
“It is time to stop fretting about Y2K and look deep into the new year. This is my annual chance to embarrass myself with high tech predictions that some reader will inevitably throw back in my face twelve months from now. No matter, I AM a professional. Do not try this at home.”
posted in Internet | Permalink |
1st
January
2000
“So alright already, it’s a new year. Time to boot up and get on with it. But before we go hurtling into the Year 2000, Wired News once again asks the key in-house folks at Wired Digital and across the Lycos Network for their take on tech in the coming year. Here’s what they predict…”
posted in Technology | Permalink |
1st
January
2000
“The idea is to do our best to build a solid consensus by the end of the year, about which *Web design principles* are the most important problems that currently need *fixing*.” Here it is: Fixing the Web in 2000.
posted in Web design | Permalink |
1st
January
2000
Stories from the past year: XHTML: Our Last, Best Hope for Clean Code; The Many Facets of QuickTime; Running Open Source Software; Mozilla: Big Undertaking, New Approach; Accurate Color on Web; Digital Storytelling is Here to Stay; Fireworks 2; Palm Browsing; The State of Streaming Media (QuickTime); Database Design for the Web.
posted in Web development | Permalink |
1st
January
2000
“The International Standards Organization’s JPEG2000 committee has finalized specs for a new algorithm that compresses images up to 200 times with no appreciable degradation in quality. The JPEG2000 spec, which will become ISO 15444 when it’s officially approved in 2001, uses wavelet transformations instead of Fourier transforms to achieve the performance gain.”
posted in Web graphics | Permalink |
