Netscape Navigator 0.9b shipped 30 years ago today. I had co-founded an early Internet hosting company, Point of Presence Company (POPCO), with a friend, Todd. Todd got quoted in the announcement press release! https://glog.glennf.com/blog/2014/10/13/netscape-navigator-free-beta

[this originally said 20 years because I am too old to remember it was 30 years]

@mcnees https://universeodon.com/@JenLucPiquant/112996415722210024

Ah, rebranding to Sticker 2000 Mules
https://mastodon.social/@docpop/112791438839648535

@vmstan @mcc Me, neither. But it seems like that article is out of date—France added a non-commercial freedom of panorama the year before it was written: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama

$2.6 trillion company, folks

@tsturm Correct. I have written or further developed three.

@jeffcarlson (my blog is fine, but I must do everything for a joke)

@jeffcarlson I would have posted it to my blog, but, well, see above

All CMSes are bad, except the one you are using, which is worse

Harvard's president will be ousted for all the below reasons:
• an organized right-wing bad-faith effort to find any thing that sticks
• mainstream media can't identify bad-faith
• she’s a Black woman in a key role and vulnerable because of pressure by wealthy white male alumni already angry about her reaching the highest position at Harvard
• a lack of citation rigor in a tiny percentage of her work that nevertheless violates policies, not having been found and corrected contemporaneously

In honor of reaching ~13,000 followers in this lovely place, how about a New Year’s sale of 13% off my letterpress-printed book, Six Centuries of Type & Printing? It's a great gift for you or a typophile friend, loved one, or colleague. Starting initially way before Gutenberg, my book takes you through the technological twists and turns of nearly 600 years of putting ink on paper. Use code MASTOCOUNT at checkout: https://glog.glennf.com/tiny-type-museum-time-capsule-and-more/six-centuries-letterpress Includes ebook.

Back in 2020, I published Six Centuries of Type & Printing, a concise book – 64 pages – that actually starts centuries before Gutenberg, with Chinese and Korea printing, and then digs into 1450 to 2020, covering ~600 years of technological advances. Set in hot-metal type (Monotype Bembo) in North Yorkshire, printed in London, and bound in Germany with a foil-stamped cover & slipcase, I still have copies available for shipping worldwide! https://glog.glennf.com/tiny-type-museum-time-capsule-and-more/six-centuries-letterpress (ebook edition available)

@mcnees That put me in my place.

Stonehenge was something I was curious to see. I didn't find it so much moving as absolutely impressive.

Elon seems pretty ticked off.

I trust you all on Mastodon enough to confess: it's my birthday! I've survived many things to get here, and I wake up grateful every day.

I love you, anyway, too 😭 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/remembering-ian-falconer-the-new-yorker-artist-and-author-of-the-olivia-books

Unless you are being held prisoner by Jigsaw

You are not required to solve daily puzzles

@mcnees Her man doesn’t come off as that bright from that either.