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Mircosoft Hate Page
Christoph Johannes Mutter
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"In the beginning, there was Mircosoft.
Then came the errors.
Despair followed later.
In the end, there was nothing left that worked."
After my computer and I had passed through all of these four stages, I decided to set up a WWW page on this topic and called it "Mircosoft Hate Page". The next step was to start collecting photos and icons, design the layout as a whole, and write a few scripts like the "guest book", for example, where Internet users from all over the world can
immortalize themselves proclaiming their opinions.
This project is basically designed to introduce a bit of color and fun into the World Wide Web and protest against existing software monopolies. My primary interest in creating hypertext documents concerns a creative and funny format that still maintains informative contents.
Technical Background
HW: PC (80486/66 MHz)
SW: Linux, CERN httpd 1.3
Then came the errors.
Despair followed later.
In the end, there was nothing left that worked."
After my computer and I had passed through all of these four stages, I decided to set up a WWW page on this topic and called it "Mircosoft Hate Page". The next step was to start collecting photos and icons, design the layout as a whole, and write a few scripts like the "guest book", for example, where Internet users from all over the world can
immortalize themselves proclaiming their opinions.
This project is basically designed to introduce a bit of color and fun into the World Wide Web and protest against existing software monopolies. My primary interest in creating hypertext documents concerns a creative and funny format that still maintains informative contents.
Technical Background
HW: PC (80486/66 MHz)
SW: Linux, CERN httpd 1.3
Christoph Johannes Mutter (A), born 1973, currently studies technical physics at the University of Linz. Has been an enthusiastic Internet user for several years and tends a number of WWW servers, among other things. Works for the Austrian Students' Assoctiation in Linz.