I built in 1996 as an internship, it all ran as some perl scripts, and I had no idea what I was doing, of course, I was 17. I just thought it was clever to use the links between pages as a signal to the search engine. I'd never heard of citation analysis.

EDIT: It did let me in, but I don't know why it took so long.

I've worked on teams where there's been one person on rotation every sprint to catch and field issues like these, so taking that job and giving it to an AI agent seems like a reasonable approach.

I think I'd be most concerned about having a separate development process outside of the main issue queue, where agents aren't necessarily integrated into the main workstream.

For the most part, everyone used some kind of SDK that translated WSDL (Web Services Description Language) specifications to their chosen language.

So you could define almost any function - like PostBlog(Blog blog), and then publish it as a WSDL interface to be consumed by a client. We could have a Java server, with a C# client, and it more or less just worked.

We used it with things like signatures, so the data in the message wasn't tampered with.

Why did it stop getting popular? It probably really started to fall out of favor when Java/C# stopped being some of the more popular programming languages for web development, and PHP and Ruby got a lot more momentum.

The idea was that REST/JSON interfaces would be easier to understand, as we would have a hypermedia interface. There was sort of an attempt to make a RESTy interface work with XML, called WebDAV, that Microsoft Office supported for a while, but it was pretty hard to work with.

I've got some old SOAP code from 2001 here at the bottom of this article:

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2160672/build-portals-with...

The idea behind it was that Behavior-Driven Development might be a great idea, but Gherkin was a pain to work with. LLMs bridge that gap now:

https://www.jefflinwood.com/2025/zapcircle-bdd-2025/

I saw "To Fly!" for the first time at the Smithsonian Air and Space Dulles location (Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center) on their IMAX screen two years ago. Definitely a film of its moment, and I can see how that influenced future science film documentaries.

My dad worked for Spitz doing Omnimax installations and planetariums, but I don't know any of the details. I would assume this was probably the late 70s or early 80s.

I worked on their e-commerce store, you could configure and buy and ship one from the web site in 1999-2000.

The prices were still really high.

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As a vendor, I (well, my company) had to pay for meals at SGI, I have no idea if the employees got free meals.

I don't think the Oracle headquarters change makes a huge difference, but I did figure Twitter would move to Austin, and that hasn't happened yet.

One of the neatest things is that they let us (Trilogy/pcOrder) put together a sand volleyball team to compete in their company intramurals.

Their cafeteria was also top notch.

From an email I sent my brother at the time:

"This show was so cool. It was a rave. We went to this music hall. I danced throughout the whole show. I met the singer from Lo Fidelity All Stars and got his autograph during the show, and we hung out with Ken from Crystal method and Paul from Orbital after the show. The guy from Orbital was impressed by the fact that we worked for a .com. I went with two other guys from Trilogy. Orbital was just amazing. It was just like their live album - Halcyon with the "Shot through the heart", the "SATAN SATAN SATAN" song, some stuff I didn't know. Crystal Method played keep hope alive and get busy child and some new stuff. I got so dehydrated though."

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/collections/o1njfe825p602p

I don't think that's a reasonable lens to be looking at how Disney's cartoon movies are doing.

I do think it might be worthwhile if you wanted to decide if Disney should have decided to keep the streaming rights, and whether the economics of that decision make sense.

I currently pay for XBox Game Pass Ultimate at $15/month. That comes with 400 games, although I tend to play the more indie games. They do rotate off, so I bought Subnautica, for instance, on Steam. I notice that a few of yours have been on Game Pass.

Right now, Epic is shoving free games like crazy through their Game Store. I have a huge backlog of games on Epic that I'll probably never work through. Some indie games, some former AAA games. Same with Amazon - they give away free games every month for some reason.

I don't know if this glut of games is going to end well or poorly, but I would suggest you don't compete with XBox, and instead do a Mac-first indie game subscription service. Apple Arcade is pretty poorly marketed, and there might be more opportunity there.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/front-end-development-lib...