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Years

Run Some Old Web Browsers Day is today (was celebrates the tenth anniversary of Mosaic Communications/Netscape - obviously not! I'm old.). JWZ celebrates by sharing a few bits of incredible trivia from the early releases. Among them:

home1.mcom.com through home32.mcom.com exist because the early browsers did client-side load-balancing: the browser itself had a special case where if it was loading "home.mcom.com" it would actually pick a random number from 1 to 32 and instead load "homeN.mcom.com"! Those were physically different servers in the Netscape data center.

JWZ also offers his archive of Netscape versions and shares the story of his attempt to reacquire the mcom.com domain from AOL. Screenshots of the old Mosaic & Netscape versions feel much older than 10 years to me.

Hezbollah Tofu, as announced on Serious Eats:

Me: It would be really funny to veganize Anthony Bourdain's recipes.

Another person: We should make and sell a zine, then donate the proceeds to a vegan charity.

So many things are wonderful about this, perhaps most wonderful is the emergence of Serious Eats as a place for culture hackers to announce their work.

11/12ths of Apperceptive

11/12ths of Apperceptive
Originally uploaded by capndesign.

My First Kottke

kottke.org, circa late 1999
Originally uploaded by jkottke.

I'd like a "single service site" that just let you log in and pick which kottke.org version was your first or favorite.

Great Do-Overs of the Past:

If anything about this is fishy it's in an arbitrary application of the right to award a do-over. Lots of close games through the years have involved mistakes of various kinds that could have, in theory, affected outcomes. The normal thought through most of my life has been "done is good" and you move on.

Henry Abbot is talking about the NBA, but he could be talking about any sport, or in fact anything.

Will Bonds draw a walk?

If Bonds had immunity from everything except perjury, why would he lie during his testimony?

One possibility is that Bonds is innocent. It is unlikely, but not impossible that Anderson put things in Bonds’ system unbeknownst to the slugger.