How the web was won. A good Vanity fair article telling an oral history of the web (it’s mostly quotes, in chronology from people involved). Hadi Partovi was my boss for a couple of years when I was on the Internet Explorer team, and I worked with Reardon back on Internet Explorer 1.0.
New Nabokov story uncovered. Always have mixed feelings about publishing things the people who wrote them didn’t plan to publish. But then again, folks like Kafka wanted all their manuscripts burned and that would have been a shame. Can you say ‘mixed feelings’?
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