http://californication.mtbguru.com/2005/03/03/tien-jaar-yahoo/ Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:54:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://californication.mtbguru.com/2005/03/03/tien-jaar-yahoo/#comment-9702 Californication » Blog Archive » Dale Dougherty at PARC’s Forum Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:28:40 +0000 http://californication.mtbguru.com/blog/2005/03/03/tien-jaar-yahoo/#comment-9702 [...] To me however, Dougherty is mainly the guy behind the legendary Global Network Navigator (circa 1993-94), the first index site or portal of the then proto-web, when the animals were still talking and people were using Mosaic to browse the net. The ‘Whole Internet Catalog’ section of the site (based on an early O’Reilly bestselling book of the same name) in particular was very useful as a search tool (Yahoo would only be founded a year or two later) - we nicknamed it ‘Den Baard‘ during my brief stint at Imec back in ‘94, because of the hairy alchemist/scientist on the cover. [...] [...] To me however, Dougherty is mainly the guy behind the legendary Global Network Navigator (circa 1993-94), the first index site or portal of the then proto-web, when the animals were still talking and people were using Mosaic to browse the net. The ‘Whole Internet Catalog’ section of the site (based on an early O’Reilly bestselling book of the same name) in particular was very useful as a search tool (Yahoo would only be founded a year or two later) - we nicknamed it ‘Den Baard‘ during my brief stint at Imec back in ‘94, because of the hairy alchemist/scientist on the cover. [...]

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