The Internet - A Primer

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This happened in 2010 sometime. I walk into a boardroom and this was all that was written on the whiteboard. It was a large whiteboard in a large boardroom - one of those fancy ones with leather seats.

Sheesh, who did this? And why? Here's a few things I can think of:

It could have been the Marketing Dept
"Ok, as(Company X)marketing team, we need to figure this stuff out. Let's do a thorough brainstorm about this new Internet product the IT guys are going on about. Heck by the end of this discussion we'd cost the company at least R10 000 but the slide-deck will be awesome! These seats are comfy."

It could have been the IT Dept
"What should the proxy block today?"


It could have been a Father/Son lesson
"And that's how I met your mother...she had an awesome profile at first, but yeah she let it go over the years...anyways, let's get a beer."

It could have been a Father/Daughter lesson
"And this is what the Internet is and these sites are evil...yeah I mean you definitely do not want to be a teen mom...yeah...anyways, let's get a milkshake."

I guess we'll never know what the discussion was about. Whatever.

Whos really killed who?

Often when new technologies emerge, people are quick to call out the 'death' of the existing older technology.
Recent ones I can remember is Google+ killing Facebook and Twitter, or Google Wave rightfully ending email's woeful existence. Heck, even SMTP and DNS are still alive and kicking!

However, thinking about those perhaps leads us to a more relevant question: Has Mxit suffered from other technologies like BBM, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc?
I wonder what Mxit's active userbase is now?


And from Silicon Valley this morning:
Reports of the PC's demise are greatly exaggerated, according to Intel CEO Paul Otellini, who said Wednesday that the Santa Clara chipmaker had record sales of $13 billion in its most recent quarter.

Sauerbraten

Sour Brats was borne from the mind of Oranjia, and named after the open source multiplayer game (no, not the german pot roast)

See the first post by Oranjia himself, way back in 2006. The internet was still new to us; we thought it was a passing fad, that would never last.

Seems we were wrong!