46 - Browsers

This week Rafael and Jeremy, two refugees of the browser wars, share tales of sacrifice and chivalry from the early days of the internet. A Muppet Family Christmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojtGHXsTXmU Bike sharing in China https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/02/world/asia/china-beijing-dockless-bike-share.html?mcubz=1&_r=0 Browser wars https://www.wired.com/2009/01/awesome-infogra/ Mosaic browser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser) Hotline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Communications Serial Box https://twitter.com/peteavey/status/24423749486903296 SVG https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG Webkit https://webkit.org/ Firefox https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ Imagemagick https://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php WebVR https://webvr.info/ Netscape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape AOL CDs https://techcrunch.com/2010/12/27/aol-discs-90s/ Compuserve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe Apple eWorld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld Information Superhighway, 1991 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk82TI92GO4 Information Superhighway, attributed to Nam June Paik and Al Gore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighway Adobe Flash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Player Why Chrome uses so much freaking RAM http://lifehacker.com/why-chrome-uses-so-much-freaking-ram-1702537477 The Story of Firefox OS https://medium.com/@bfrancis/the-story-of-firefox-os-cb5bf796e8fb Mobile First design https://www.uxpin.com/studio/blog/a-hands-on-guide-to-mobile-first-design/ Steve Jobs promotes Web 2.0 / Ajax apps (no SDK) https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=8Vq993Td6ys App Fatigue https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/03/app-fatigue/ Mark 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/ React Native https://facebook.github.io/react-native/ Rafael’s new app, Here Hear http://www.newrafael.com/herehear/ ** Commercial Break ** Reflections on the Burden of Men https://www.rotbom.com/ Jack 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 Microserfs, Douglas Coupland, 1995 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2748.Microserfs JODI http://v2.nl/archive/organizations/jodi.org The 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 Text Free Browsing http://textfreebrowsing.com/ Kobo https://www.kobo.com/ A/B testing and Multi-armed bandits https://vwo.com/blog/multi-armed-bandit-algorithm/ Tinder https://www.gotinder.com/ Why doing less drives more conversions https://neilpatel.com/blog/less-drives-conversions/ Olia Lialina, Summer, 2013 http://www.emiliegervais.com/olia/summer/ Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology https://anthology.rhizome.org/ The Browser Wars are back https://www.wired.com/2015/09/thompson-3/ Torrent files https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent_file