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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

This was when the state of the art was click-to-refresh HTML form-based chats. The hosted offering worked by having users place an “HTML-snippet” on their own website, which would retrieve the Java Applet from our servers and connect back to our servers. In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., The product worked.

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If I Had To Do It All Over Again This Is What I Would Do Differently

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In summary, I went online in 1998, played with the web for two years, spending my time on newsgroups, forums and surfing for information on the things I was interested in at the time. I built all the websites, including countless hours lost to making minor design tweaks because I wasn’t very good at HTML.

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NYC 2.0 (continued…)

BeyondVC

When I first met Andrew in late 1998, he had just finished his Stanford Ph.d program in EE from Stanford with other well-known classmates. This was 1998 and Flashbase was a true predecessor to Intuit’s Quickbase. Initially, the client sw was web-based, with simple html as the implementation technology.

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

Both Sides of the Table

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. In 1998 the Department of Justice launched an anti-trust case against Microsoft.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

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. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 1998 , Bernard et al., 1998 , Tullis et al., Programmed Learning and Educational Technology 18(2), 57-61.