Re: LYNX-DEV http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/refindex.html

[Wayne Buttles]

On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Duncan Hill wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Hiram Lester, Jr. wrote:
> 
> > I'm sure it was intended to be a joke like "dog years" where it is said
> > that a dog ages roughly 7 times the speed of humans, so a dog at 1 year
> > old is roughly equivalent to a 7-year old child, thus we say that the daog
> > is 7 years old in "dog years".  Cats are roughly similar.  So, just how
> > many "web years" ARE equivalent to 1 year? :)
> 
> 1 web year to a month?  at the rate websites come and go..if a website 
> was a store, it just about makes sense..
> 

Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web and the director of W3C:

"What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse
around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have
agents-- then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice." 

http://www.ora.com/www/info/wj/issue3/tbl-int.html

(No date given)

"Industry" years is more of a production measurment than a joke.  Sort of
how much can change within a given period of time.  Then again, it is
almost useless on the web with feature creep happening so fast and the
new concept of "BETA is better."  At what point did it become ok to demand
users to use beta products?!

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Wayne.

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