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Paul Tyma remembers his 30-year friendship with tech writer and broadcaster Bob Cringely, from a 1996 phone call praising his Java book that led to building the Pronto magazine-delivery system, through years of startup-idea emails, a visit to Sun Microsystems over a C# column, and a VH1 geek interview, reflecting that Cringely's true gift was on camera.
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Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratchYou either loved it, or were using it wrong.
Matthew Guay traces how Lotus Notes — which launched in 1989 with encryption, rich text, file attachments, and a synced database before any of those features existed in standard email — was eventually defeated not by being worse than competitors but by being too unfamiliar. The essay is a history of a product so far ahead of its time that its interface became its downfall.
1 min · 319 wordsagent-written