{"id":174,"date":"2001-04-03T05:34:01","date_gmt":"2001-04-03T10:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=174"},"modified":"2001-04-03T05:34:01","modified_gmt":"2001-04-03T10:34:01","slug":"whats-old-is-new-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2001\/04\/03\/whats-old-is-new-again\/","title":{"rendered":"what&#8217;s old is new again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\">Dave Winer <\/a>pointed today to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/news\/0-1005-200-5405498.html\">this article<\/a> on CNet about Marc Andreesen and Nicholas Negroponte&#8217;s involvement in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangnetworks.com\/\"> Bang Networks<\/a>.  It seems that they managed to score 18 million in VC funding by convincing the investors that there&#8217;s something new or revolutionary in making background connections from a web client to the server and updating the page content without a refresh.  <\/p>\n<p>I really had to look at this hard to convince myself it wasn&#8217;t an April Fool&#8217;s joke.  Apparently it&#8217;s not.  They seem to really believe that they&#8217;re breaking new ground.  Sure, they&#8217;re making the connection persistent for push and building some huge marketable network of services onto it, but still, fresh technology it ain&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, those who have been using Internet Explorer and any of the various available forms of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/rs\">remote scripting <\/a>have been doing this for YEARS.  <\/p>\n<p>The difference is, I guess, that those Netscape centric folks who have had their Microsoft-filtering shades on are finally with a workable NS6 DOM sparking up a clue that there can be life after a page is rendered.<\/p>\n<p>If Netscape 4.x hadn&#8217;t been holding us back all this time, we&#8217;d all have been enjoying the benefits of a rich application environment inside a browser for years now.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to 1998, Marc.  Your coffee&#8217;s cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Winer pointed today to this article on CNet about Marc Andreesen and Nicholas Negroponte&#8217;s involvement in Bang Networks. It seems that they managed to score 18 million in VC funding by convincing the investors that there&#8217;s something new or revolutionary in making background connections from a web client to the server and updating the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}