What's New is Old

Mark and Wes in Lafayette, CA at the Swad Indian restaurant. Sites of Interest:Amazon officially announced the Kindle 2.E-ink devices will soon be in color.Modern Flash Memory is like the ancient core memory in that they both retain their bits when power is removed.Wes mentioned an idea from the TED Conference, Homo Evolutus.Bill Gates released mosquitoes to an audience at Ted.Mark thought this Hello Kitty lineman's handset was for sale, but it's just a hand-made gift.History of the early day web browsers.The public first had access to the Internet via a Shell Account, which is character-mode access like a DOS or UNIX command line. Using TIA and other programs, people could do graphic web browsing on their cheap Shell Account.In 1999, the World's Smallest Web Server was the size of a box of matches.Basic Stamp and Arduino are popular systems for making prototype electronic and robotic projects.Today's Front Pages can also be viewed via a U.S. map.Years ago Mark and his cat wrote a daily email newsletter calle