Since I’ve moved from Geocities to blogger I’ve been trying to figure out why the hell my XML feed wasn’t working. Well turns out I didn’t have the right address marked… DOH! and I’m supposed to be a computer guy… So once I figured out how to get the RSS/XML stuff going I’ve been all impressed I have my own little RSS feed for this here blog. If you use firefox… and I know you do because IT IS A SUPERIOR BROWSER! Then there should be this orange looking thing in the bottom right corner of your screen. You can “live bookmark” me there.
The real reason why I love firefox though is because firefox is truly the first cross platform application that is pretty much “mass market”. I’ve used a lot of Operating systems I’m very good with Windows (doesn’t take a monkey to do that well), versed in Linux (I can actually have a workable Linux in about 30 minutes depending on how much configuring the desktop takes), Mac OS (I’ve used it enough to know my way around and make it work like I want it I’m by no means a expert). Firefox works the same on all of them. I think the two killer things for me about firefox is the tabbed browsing and the previously mentioned live bookmarks.
Back in 1996 I was the rebel… I used Internet Explorer all of my friends used Netscape 3.x, now adays I’m still the rebel (Linux, firefox, and where I can sneak it in Thunderbird). My entire family is still stuck on internet explorer. I did finally get my parents to Thunderbird. Though I tend to think that is more of a pyric victory then anything else.
I remember the first time I say a actual reference to the internet in a television show. It was the x-files in 1995.. Scully was using a laptop and did a search on something and she used a Unix like command to execute the search on the internet. I remember thinking it was very cool… it was only later that I would figure out in the days before mosaic (the first internet browser) that all you had to navigate the internet was a command line for a Unix machine. BASH!