Mike Taylor wrote:
> Andrews, Mark J. writes:
> > I was getting tired of all the "2.0" talk anyway. Proceeding
> > ordinally, what comes after "Third Order?" Fourth Estate and Fifth
> > Column are already taken.
>
> No, after Library 3.0 comes Library 3.1, then Library for Workgroups.
> Then it jumps straight to Library 96 and then Library 98 before
> forking into one stream that becomes Library NT and Library XP, while
> the other becomes Library ME before being quietly swept under the
> carpet. Of course, each new Library release will need hardware twice
> as powerful as the previous version did, but will still only run half
> as fast. The good news is that by the time we reach Library XP, we'll
> only need to reboot it a couple of times a day.
*LOL* Thanks a lot, Mike, now I finally know what to tell when asked
about what comes after 2.0!
To explain that the 2.0 stuff is not new but just a continuation by
normal people of what enthusiasts have been doing since the beginning on
the net I regularly use the story of the original SF-LOVERS mailing
list. The story is that soon after invention the mailing-list,
SF-LOVERS, a list for science fiction fans became so popular that it
used a large amount of ARPANET's bandwith. To save this not work-related
first instance of social software, it was declared to be a research
project about networked communication ;-) Unfortunately I don't have
reliable, exact sources about this, but the story is so good, it does
not matter.
Greetings,
Jakob
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Received on Mon May 21 2007 - 06:56:09 EDT