Author: ChrisC

Tours of Old York #2: The Streets of York, 1988 and Now

And, having found another old video of York on YouTube, it’s time for another Tour of Old York. Alas, the the YouTube video doesn’t seem to be embeddable on any old random website but – in better news – it does seem to be tagged with a permissive licence that allows me to rehost it here…

The streets of York in 1988, Russell Webster (Via Creative Commons Attribution licence (reuse allowed))
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Random Acts of Top of the Pops: #3 – January 26th, 1978

Episode Number: 730
First Shown: 7.10pm on January 26th, 1978
Presenter(s): David ‘Kid’ Jensen
Official Top 100: @The Official Charts
Studio: BBC Television Centre
iPlayer: Top of the Pops – January 26th, 1978
BBC Genome: Here!

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Jamie Zawinski’s notes on the early days of the Netscape/Mozilla Transition

On January 20th, 1998, Netscape laid off a lot of people. One of them would have been me, as my “department”, such as it was, had been eliminated, but I ended up mometarily moving from “clienteng” over to the “website” division. For about 48 hours I thought that I might end up writing a webmail product or something.

That, uh, didn’t happen.

Jamie Zawinski
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