that style of webpage is fairly typical for a grad student or researcher to display their publications and other academic works. even today lots of academic webpages i peruse look like that :) it's what happens when you write pure HTML with no CSS
I really like them too, it's quite a refreshing break from the full-ness of the rest of the web. It recalls a time when the web was meant distributing information as opposed to another sales channel.
Exactly. I couldn't figure out what was so remarkable about this page until I read the comments here. This is how every professor/post-doc/grad-student's page looks like if they don't use a university template.
Don't forget about Larry! His page is at http://infolab.stanford.edu/~page/ . The images are broken on the Stanford version, so I corrected the image sources and reposted it at http://bit.ly/6iO8Bk . (Hopefully he forgives me...)
> A new project I have just started is going to generate personalized movie ratings for users. The way it works is as follows. You rate the movies you have seen. Then the system finds other users with similar tastes to extrapolate how much the you will like some other movies. It is currently written entirely in Python.
I've interviewed lots of CS PHDs who couldn't code anything. He must be one of those. Look at all those overly theoretical-sounding papers.
Oh, he can get loads of data from the web and make some fancy calculations. But can he make any money off that? Reminds me of Erik Naggum's take on lisp fanboys babbling about inverting large matrices...
He's got no sense of design either. Well, at least he can make his own HTML page by hand.
I was using a 486 in 1998 to browse the web with Opera, reading my usenet with Internet News (Forte Free Agent later on) and my mail with Pegasus Mail.
486s were ridiculous expensive when they came out in '89 - remember a Commodore Amiga was advanced at that time. Even when I got my 486dx-66 in '94 it was towards the top of the range for a consumer PC.
My high school had a drafting lab, and I and a bunch of other guys would sneak in there during the lunch hour and fire up illicit games of Descent.
The rule was that the first one to successfully enter the lab would get to use the shiny 486 in there; everyone else had to use the 386s, which put them at a distinct tactical disadvantage.
