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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? might have been a lot less differentiated. In 1998 the Department of Justice launched an anti-trust case against Microsoft.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. It was so bad that I almost wrote my first Yelp review. Thanks to Roni Eshel, goFlow ! #9) 9) Horrible Experience.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. In 2003 as part of my master’s degree I reviewed over 50 empirical studies in typography and found a definitive answer. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ).