On: What was the code quality of the initial version o...

[technomancy]

Here's a hilarious blast from the past: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java/msg/88fa108450...

From Lawrence Page himself. Apparently back then you couldn't even set the User-agent header from Java's HTTP libraries.

[chintan → technomancy]

Timestamp: Jan 7 1996, <strong>4:00 am</strong>

Nice!

[vellum → chintan]

I'm in California. It says 1 AM to me.

[jpr → chintan]

Hmm, to me it says 3:00 am. Is there some localization thing going on? I'm looking at it from Finland.

[gaius → jpr]

Yep, says 8am to me, from England. So whatever localization they're doing, it's quite badly broken - aren't you supposed to be 2 hrs ahead of me?

[jpr → gaius]

And now it says 11:00 am, when it's 23:25 here. Apparently quality of code didn't prevent Google from succeeding.