[LINK] Dramatic rise in botnet-controlled PCs

[grove at zeta.org.au]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Danny Yee wrote:

> Rick Welykochy wrote:
>> Remember when the web consisted only of HTML? No Javascript, no
>> plug-ins, no Java and no client-side code execution except the
>> rendering of the HTML?
>
> The web went downhill when they added graphics to it.  Mosaic was a
> step too far.


No, that was fine.  Graphics were always part of the original spec.

Windows 95 and IE was the step too far...   Once MS balkanised 
the web by producing MS specific websits "best view in IE" that is 
when the rot was set.


rachel

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