I recall slashdot back in the early days, very shortly afterwards a small company called google was also formed. Even though I'm approaching 50 years myself it is stories like this that makes me feel old.
Ah yeah, that makes sense. Thanks. I remember those days all too clearly. Everyone assumed that because Microsoft dominated Desktop computing that they would be able to leverage that into any future platforms. Even then, the higher usage of Apache over IIS offered some hope.
It's a "borg gates" picture, and I remember the post where they talked about getting rid of it - basically, there's no longer any fear of MS assimilating all computing diversity.
I remember pranking a colleague's computer after a Linux advocacy rant so that that Bill-Borg picture came up on her PC's splashscreen, with the message "You WILL be assimilated".
As it happened, that morning, she had just had a meeting with the boss about turning up late too frequently, and was thrown into a momentary paranoid panic, before she figured out that I was the culprit!
The real testament is to consider how visually similar slashdot is from iteration 1.
http://web.archive.org/web/19980113191222/http://slashdot.or...
How fascinating is it for something to work as well as it has, for so long.