MetaFilter posts tagged with client

This Is For Everyone

Wordshore — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 03:13:32 -0800

Twenty two years ago today, a British physicist, former trainspotter, science fiction fan and computer builder, with the help of Robert Cailliau and other colleagues at CERN, executed the first successful communication between a HTTP client and server on the Internet. The web was devised in France (not Switzerland), and built on decades of hypertext and internet protocol developments. The first browser was called WorldWideWeb and ran on the NeXT computer. The first website was info.cern.ch. Despite promotion of the system within CERN, take-up was low for the first year or two. By the end of 1993, there were 623 websites. In May 1994, the First International Conference on the World-Wide Web was held (at which the first Best of the Web award winners were announced), attracting 380 participants; the preliminary proceedings are downloadable. In 1995, Matt Haughey designed his first website; in June of that year, there were 23,500 websites - or less than 20,000. However, within 18 months (by the end of 1996), there were over 600,000 websites. In 1998 the first Google index recognized 26 million pages, and by 2000 the number of pages in the "surface" web was measurable in the billions. Estimates of how many websites there are varies as years progress, as does the number of web pages. Some more well-known earlier websites. The author of the software participated in the opening ceremony of this summer's Olympic Games, during which he tweeted. Not everyone knew who he was. This didn't bother him and he won't tell you what he had for breakfast. Family fact: his father worked in the team which developed the world's first commercially available general-purpose electronic computer, followed by text compression techniques and some of the earliest applications of computers in medicine.

Can you make it pop?

Fleebnork — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:31:13 -0800

Ad creatives, designers, animators, directors, illustrators and more have taken time out to dress up their favourite worst feedback from clients, transforming quotes that would normally give you a twitch, into a diverse collection of posters.

Paid, not played

quiet coyote — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:15:52 -0800

Are you a freelancer held hostage by deadbeat clients? Add what you're owed to the world's longest invoice.

They only did it 'cos of fame - A.P.I.

Artw — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:05:20 -0800

"Developers ask us if they should build client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience. The answer is no." - Not long after saddling it's own iOS client with some unpopular new "features" Twitter is saying no to the development of new competing clients. Existing clients such as Twitterific and Echofon should be unaffected.

We didn't budget for this...

educatedslacker — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:35:43 -0800

The Vendor-Client Relationship in real life situations (SLYT).

Altered Productions NW Photograper's work

efalk — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 04:35:14 -0800

Photos before the show starts Yakutat AK; Portland, OR; San Diego, CA; L.A; Cleveland, OH.

Microsoft Mail

bobbyelliott — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 01:17:21 -0800

Microsoft Mail is designed to replace Hotmail - and looks a lot like "Outlook Online". It will have to compete with Gmail's simplicity and Yahoo's (beta) functionality. Are desktop clients doomed?