HTTP/2 302 server: nginx date: Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:39:17 GMT content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 content-length: 0 x-archive-redirect-reason: found capture at 20090615030311 location: https://web.archive.org/web/20090615030311/https://www.infoworld.com/blogs/robert-x-cringely/feed server-timing: captures_list;dur=0.757253, exclusion.robots;dur=0.027556, exclusion.robots.policy;dur=0.011764, esindex;dur=0.018395, cdx.remote;dur=59.021585, LoadShardBlock;dur=336.094271, PetaboxLoader3.resolve;dur=41.640271, PetaboxLoader3.datanode;dur=69.509311 x-app-server: wwwb-app211 x-ts: 302 x-tr: 424 server-timing: TR;dur=0,Tw;dur=0,Tc;dur=0 set-cookie: SERVER=wwwb-app211; path=/ x-location: All x-rl: 0 x-na: 0 x-page-cache: MISS server-timing: MISS x-nid: DigitalOcean referrer-policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade permissions-policy: interest-cohort=() HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:39:17 GMT content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 x-archive-orig-date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:03:10 GMT x-archive-orig-server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) x-archive-orig-x-powered-by: PHP/5.2.8 x-archive-orig-cache-control: max-age=1 x-archive-orig-expires: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:03:11 GMT x-archive-orig-connection: close cache-control: max-age=1800 x-archive-guessed-content-type: text/xml x-archive-guessed-charset: ibm852 memento-datetime: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:03:11 GMT link: ; rel="original", ; rel="timemap"; type="application/link-format", ; rel="timegate", ; rel="first memento"; datetime="Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:33:42 GMT", ; rel="prev memento"; datetime="Thu, 14 May 2009 23:46:17 GMT", ; rel="memento"; datetime="Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:03:11 GMT", ; rel="next memento"; datetime="Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:28:07 GMT", ; rel="last memento"; datetime="Sat, 13 Sep 2014 11:24:11 GMT" content-security-policy: default-src 'self' 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline' data: blob: archive.org web.archive.org web-static.archive.org wayback-api.archive.org athena.archive.org analytics.archive.org pragma.archivelab.org wwwb-events.archive.org x-archive-src: 51_10_20090615024318_crawl103-c/51_10_20090615025941_crawl103.arc.gz server-timing: captures_list;dur=0.506537, exclusion.robots;dur=0.018556, exclusion.robots.policy;dur=0.008732, esindex;dur=0.011967, cdx.remote;dur=96.929939, LoadShardBlock;dur=141.751509, PetaboxLoader3.datanode;dur=138.916634, load_resource;dur=120.774265, PetaboxLoader3.resolve;dur=71.048034 x-app-server: wwwb-app211 x-ts: 200 x-tr: 398 server-timing: TR;dur=0,Tw;dur=0,Tc;dur=0 x-location: All x-rl: 0 x-na: 0 x-page-cache: MISS server-timing: MISS x-nid: DigitalOcean referrer-policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade permissions-policy: interest-cohort=() content-encoding: gzip https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/blogs en https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/microsoft-tour-europe-sans-browsers-361 <!--paging_filter--><p>Ah, those wacky Europeans. They think nothing of stripping down and jumping into the Mediterranean in the altogether or, at most, those skimpy man sacks they call swimsuits.</p><p><a href="https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/microsoft-tour-europe-sans-browsers-361" target="_blank">read more</a></p> https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/microsoft-tour-europe-sans-browsers-361#comments Adventures in IT antitrust Microsoft Madness Browsers Windows Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:27:09 +0000 Robert X. Cringely 79361 at https://www.infoworld.com https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/facebook-and-twitter-name-names-992 <!--paging_filter--><p>Tick, tick, tick, tick.</p> <p>Two days, 13 hours, and 58 seconds, as I write this. That's how much time you have left before you can claim your own personalized Facebook URL.</p><p><a href="https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/facebook-and-twitter-name-names-992" target="_blank">read more</a></p> https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/facebook-and-twitter-name-names-992#comments Adventures in IT anti-social networking Biz Stone Facebook Twitter Web companies Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:07:39 +0000 Robert X. Cringely 78992 at https://www.infoworld.com https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/china-web-surf-your-own-risk-643 <!--paging_filter--><p>Don't look now, but China is messing with the Interwebs again.</p> <p>As first reported by the Wall Street Journal, PC makers wishing to sell their hardware on that side of the great firewall after July 1 will be required to install a program called <a href="https://www.infoworld.com/t/desktop-computers/china-demands-new-pcs-have-web-site-blocking-program-580" target="_blank">"Green Dam-Youth Escort" that keeps the machine from accessing illicit sites</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/china-web-surf-your-own-risk-643" target="_blank">read more</a></p> https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/china-web-surf-your-own-risk-643#comments Adventures in IT censorship China Web filters Data security E-government Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:55:51 +0000 Robert X. Cringely 78643 at https://www.infoworld.com https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/truth-shall-set-you-pre-359 <!--paging_filter--><p>In case you've been in a coma and missed the news, the Palm Pre officially goes on sale tomorrow (that's Saturday, June 6, 2009 AD). And while it hasn't exactly reached the level of iPhone mania, the Pre is easily the second most important product launch of the last several years.</p> <p>(Sorry Amazon, the Kindle isn't even in the top five. Google? Android was OK, I guess. But I've been using the G1 for a few months now, and I can't say the earth has ever moved for me.)</p><p><a href="https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/truth-shall-set-you-pre-359" target="_blank">read more</a></p> https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/truth-shall-set-you-pre-359#comments Adventures in IT Palm Palm Pre Sprint Smartphones Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:30:49 +0000 Robert X. Cringely 78359 at https://www.infoworld.com https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/reader-rabid-something-wiki-way-comes-880 <!--paging_filter--><p>Well that didn't take long. Reaction to my recent post, "<a href="https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/wikipedia-scientologists-edit-suckers-526" target="_blank">Wikipedia to Scientologists: Edit this, sucker</a>," was fast and vociferous.</p> <p>Cringester M. A. (who says she "didn't like the tone of my article") is glad to have Wikipedia around and applauds its efforts to stop rampant propagandizing inside its virtual pages:</p><p><a href="https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/reader-rabid-something-wiki-way-comes-880" target="_blank">read more</a></p> https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/reader-rabid-something-wiki-way-comes-880#comments Adventures in IT censorship First Amendment Wikipedia Web companies Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:00:00 +0000 Robert X. Cringely 77880 at https://www.infoworld.com https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/wikipedia-scientologists-edit-suckers-526 <!--paging_filter--><p>Memo to Tom Cruise: You're outta here, dude.</p><p>John Travolta? Take a hike, Barbarino. Kirstie Alley? Shut up and get your fat **** back on that exercycle.</p><p><a href="https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/wikipedia-scientologists-edit-suckers-526" target="_blank">read more</a></p> https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/wikipedia-scientologists-edit-suckers-526#comments Adventures in IT censorship Wikipedia Web companies Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:23:58 +0000 Robert X. Cringely 77526 at https://www.infoworld.com https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/bing-worth-fling-333 <!--paging_filter--><p>When it comes to search, Microsoft has been like the Ty-D-Bol Man, stuck in a leaky rowboat with the Smurf-blue waters rising on all sides. It's desperately hoping that Bing, the <a href="https://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/its-official-microsofts-new-search-engine-named-bing-119" target="_blank">newly reincarnated version of Live Search unveiled by Steve "The Mad" Ballmer</a> at this week's All Things D confab, will toss the company a lifeline.</p><p>Yeah, well, maybe. But before we get into that, let's get a few things straight.</p><p><a href="https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/bing-worth-fling-333" target="_blank">read more</a></p> https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/bing-worth-fling-333#comments Adventures in IT Great Googley Moogley Kumo Live Search Steve Ballmer Search Web companies Fri, 29 May 2009 17:00:51 +0000 Robert X. Cringely 77333 at https://www.infoworld.com https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/coming-twit-near-you-868 <!--paging_filter--><p>This is it. The end of days. The Last Mile. The Final Enchilada. Some rude beast is slouching toward Bethlehem, and it's not just Oprah in a muumuu.</p> <p>They're turning <a title="Will You Tune Into Twitter TV?" href="https://www.infoworld.com/t/networking/will-you-tune-twitter-tv-681" target="_self">Twitter into a reality TV series</a>.</p> <p>Let me say that again, in case you missed it: They're turning <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/arts/television/27arts-TWITTERISHAT_BRF.html?ref=arts" target="_blank">Twitter into a reality TV series</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/coming-twit-near-you-868" target="_blank">read more</a></p> https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/coming-twit-near-you-868#comments Adventures in IT Ashton Kutcher Biz Stone Demi Moore microblogging Twitter Web companies Wed, 27 May 2009 13:38:58 +0000 Robert X. Cringely 76868 at https://www.infoworld.com https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/microsoft-hopes-bings-thing-revive-live-search-597 <!--paging_filter--><p>In a day or two, Steve Ballmer will be unveiling <a title="Microsoft's Kumo search engine expected next week" href="https://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/microsofts-kumo-search-engine-expected-next-week-171" target="_self">Microsoft Live Search's latest attempt to climb out of the dung heap</a> of second-rate search engines and raise its head high enough to see the dust left behind by Google.</p><p><a href="https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/microsoft-hopes-bings-thing-revive-live-search-597" target="_blank">read more</a></p> https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/microsoft-hopes-bings-thing-revive-live-search-597#comments Adventures in IT Great Googley Moogley Kumo Steve Ballmer Search Tue, 26 May 2009 11:26:25 +0000 Robert X. Cringely 76597 at https://www.infoworld.com https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/state-v-craigslist-showdowns-and-ho-downs-401 <!--paging_filter--><p>I don't know about you, but I'm finding the whole showdown between Craigslist and the state attorneys general over online "adult" ads endlessly entertaining. In case you've been paying attention to actual news and somehow missed it, here's the story so far.</p><p><a href="https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/state-v-craigslist-showdowns-and-ho-downs-401" target="_blank">read more</a></p> https://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/state-v-craigslist-showdowns-and-ho-downs-401#comments Adventures in IT Craigslist Misadventures Fri, 22 May 2009 10:00:00 +0000 Robert X. Cringely 76401 at https://www.infoworld.com