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September 11, 2005
The History of Adobe on the Internet
After reading Bill's recent Blog posting I went to the Internet Archive project he references and looked up the first archived Adobe web page from 1996.
This reminded me of another project by Google integrating 20 years of Usenet archives into Google Groups.
I used the Internet for the first time in 1991 when I started to go to school in San Diego (as part of a foreign exchange program). In Germany I had alread used an acoustic coupler back in the 80's to connect to various Bulletin Board Systems and the German Datex-P X.25 Network.
With the Internet access in San Diego I discovered a new world of applications like FTP, Gopher and eventually also Usenet news groups. Fast forward 15 years and this seems to be ancient history. A history I believe is important to be preserved similar to old hardware finding its way into museums.
After Google completed the project of indexing the Usenet (the ones which they were able to assemble from different archives dating back to 1981) they created this interesting collection of links with important Usenet postings. Among others it includes references to the first mention of Microsoft and the first "Me too" post (OK, maybe not that important).
Inspired by the list I started to do my own research and compiled a list of postings documenting the history of Adobe on Usenet.
September 05, 2005
Hello and willkommen to my Blog ...
I was very excited when I learned a couple of weeks ago that we will have the opportunity to maintain a Blog on adobe.com. I immediately sent an email to Gavin to sign me up. So now I am very happy and proud to be the first one of a second wave of public Bloggers for Adobe.
As you probably already guessed from my Blog title, I will cover themes which are outside of the still common view about Adobe. Yes, Adobe is first and foremost well known for its software for Creative Professionals, photo and video. However for a couple of years now Adobe has been implementing a major new strategy to grow in the enterprise software market. So if you want to learn more about my role in this effort please read on...