A look at Gen-Z differences:
Microsoft of old
Going through this old blog post (15 years ago!)
Ironically, Microsoft unintentionally helped create Ajax. The x in Ajax is from the XMLHttpRequest object, which lets the browser communicate with the server in the background while displaying a page. (Originally the only way to communicate with the server was to ask for a new page.) XMLHttpRequest was created by Microsoft in the late 90s because they needed it for Outlook. What they didn’t realize was that it would be useful to a lot of other people too—in fact, to anyone who wanted to make web apps work like desktop ones.
Reasons to favor micro.blog
- The “slow” social network
- For the “cold” takes; don’t have to discuss things at breakneck speed
- for me, share a firehose, but without feeling like I’m spamming, without judgement
Interesting: Igor Tamm
- from Math stackexchange
- from Reddit
Noticed two different kinds of “aircraft displays in airports”:
San Jose: an abstract rendition of a flying machine
San Diego: the actual Spirit of St Louis
