August 3, 2009
Maui Curmudgeon
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Part 7 of a multi-part series: Notes From a Wayward Mauian
By Maui Curmudgeon
The #1 movie by sales of all time is “Gone with the Wind” (corrected for dollar value over the years, it took in nearly three times what the “Titanic” did). Its opening is one of the most iconic in cinema:
“There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind….”
What shocks me today is just how successful this image of the Old South is burned into the American consciousness. To this day people remember the South this way. Worse, people think the South is riddled with manners today. During my travels I kept hearing, “Everyone here is so nice!” As if….
As if the records needs to be set:
So many millions of blacks died during the 200 years of the Southern slave trade that to this day no one knows the correct number. We can estimate that 1 in 5 slaves died during transport, as business logs kept such records – after all, these weren’t people they were things.
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August 3, 2009
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 Sisters Day
Day 215 of 2009
150 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
‘Upena: Web
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Sande: Sunday
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “They are a keeper of bundles.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY
— “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” (Yogi Berra)
August, 1990: The creation of what would become the World Wide Web was suggested this month in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Switzerland. By October, they designed a prototype Web browser. They also introduced HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and the URL (Universal Resource Locator).
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Mosaic, the first graphical web browser, was designed and released in 1993 by Mark Andreessen while a student at the University of Illinois. Mosaic Communications Corporation was founded a year later by entrepenuer Jim Clark, who recruited Andreessen to build the first commercial browser, Netscape, released in 1994. It owned the market, until Microsoft Corporation unleashed the first browser wars by releasing Internet Explorer the following year.
Netscape’s market share decreased steadily from then on, and in January 1998 it started the open source Mozilla Project. By the end of 2006, the usage share of Netscape browsers had fallen from over 90% in the mid 1990s, to less than 1%. x
Firefox, Netscape’s progeny through the open-source project, was first released in November, 2004. As of July 2008, Firefox had 19.23% of the recorded usage share of web browsers, making it the second-most popular browser in current use worldwide, after Internet Explorer.
Today, more than a billion people surf the World Wide Web.
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