Not Very Good Technologies
- ethernet vs. token ring, sna etc
- IP vs ISO/OSI
- PCs vs MainFrames
- UNIX vs all else (except maybe DOS)
- UNIX applications vs all else
- LINUX vs other UNIXen
- HTTP (aka WWW) vs Lotus Notes or other document sharing systems
- HTTP vs Xanadu
- HTML vs real SGML DTDs
- HTML vs real formatting languages Acrobat, pagemaker etc
- WWW Forms vs specialized clients
- VRML vs all other 3D worlds
- Java vs other object oriented languages
- PGP vs all other security
- Massive replication of databases (floodd andd Harvest) vs centralized databases
- fuzzy searches (Lycos) vs real matches
- Harvest vs X.500
- IETF vs ISO (or any other real organization)
- Internet vs America On-Line, Compuserv, Prodigy
- Democracy vs all else
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