DeadPc.net

The other day I was thinking about the beginnings of mainstream computing ... brought on no doubt by my 'rediscovery' of such classic games as SWIV - 3D, Carmageddon, DOOM and Quake. My work on the Website necessitated the dusting off of these games. It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it :-)

We have now had computers in the mainstream for what, 20 years? Still, in all of that time, one word sticks out a mile: "incompatibility". Take for example a recent one: RSS feeds. Six or seven different standards. One group goes working on it, part of the group reckons it has the goods on the technology, so what do they do? - yes, fragment.

Often times greed is behind lack of compatibility / standards everywhere. How many true standards are there in computing? - not many. Perhaps the web itself, at the core level, but before long you realise that that too is riddled with glitches as soon as you pass the basics.

My work this past 6 months or so on my various websites has always been like taking a sledgehammer to square pegs, trying to fit them into round holes. Many things have been promised with the advent of Web 2.0. I will need some convincing for all of the above reasons.