This is the ICQ message I received a few moments ago when I sat down at the computer.
kenr: btw, i’ve discovered a _great_ new browser!
Netscape 3.01 with Java and Javascript turned off… 🙂
The effects of code glut and superfluous (I just love to use that word) features are creating a new electronic class of users. Call them The Digital Amish or The Electric Luddites – or just call them fed up. They are using tools like the old Netscape browsers – the ones that worked, not the zombie kludge versions we have around today – and older stripped down versions of word processors, spreadsheets, and even operating systems and hardware. Sure, for some of them it’s just nostalgia, but for many it’s an overwhelming sickness of programs that take up hundreds of meg of storage, limited license usage and yearly updates, and features so smart that you have to fight just to make your documents look the way that you want them to look!
A fork is not a blender or a microwave oven. Why? Because it doesn’t need to be. It does what it does – and it does it well. The closest we ever came to FORK 2.0 was the Spork, and we learned our lesson.