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Simple, tongue-in-cheek websites date to the early days of the Internet - Purple.com has depicted a plain purple screen since 1994. In fact, emulating the clunky look of early websites is part of the fun, says Percy. "The way I built [the Balloon Boy site] is exactly how I would have done it in 1996. There's a lot of nostalgia involved." Tech blogger Jason Kottke coined the "single-serving" moniker and listed some favorites in a 2008 blog post - a move that prompted a rush of new entries, Greenberg says. Around the same time, writer Mathew Honan created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where's Balloon Boy? Ask the Web | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...guess I should be grateful, since Google Wave is both free and pretty cool. Its main defect is that it's almost impossible to explain. Google spokespeople have described Wave as what e-mail would look like if it had been invented now instead of 40 years ago. (Fun fact: the first e-mail was sent in 1971 between two Digital PDP-10 computers.) Keep in mind that until the mid-1990s, when e-mail went mainstream, the network environment was very different. Bandwidth was a scarce resource. You had your poky modem and liked it. Which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google Wave: What's All the Fuss About? | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...really fun weekend—we spent a lot of time hanging out with the other teams, building campfires and stuff,” Santangelo said. “It was a regatta that usually you get 10 or 12 races and you can figure out the shifts and work on your consistency and boat speed. This was a regatta…where a lot of [the races] were just luck of the draw...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Four Regattas Offer Varied Results | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...really electric,” Pollak said. “All of [Williams’] teammates went kind of crazy. It was a lot of fun, even though it didn?...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Match Play Comes Down to the Wire | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

Setting Sue, “mighty Greek warrior,” to Carmina Burana was brilliant. We hope someone got promoted. Also fun: a double-headed coin, threats of vomit, an ability to smell failure, and an increasingly improbable biography. We are now to believe she is a Comanche and a former VJ. Sue’s idea of “empowerment” is “irrational, random terror,” and she finds “psychosexual derangement” to be “fascinating...

Author: By Luis Urbina | Title: Recap: "Throwdown" | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

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