Category: Historical Perspective

Old articles from earlier versions of Anthurian.com, resurrected for posterity’s sake.

  • What Ever Happened to VRML?

    Continuing my “Historical Perspective” series, this article was originally written on May 24th, 2002. Since then, a lot of things have changed (for better or worse) with the emergence of virtual worlds like Second Life and World of Warcraft which, although not fulfilling the original dreams of “virtual reality” go a long way to creating…

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  • The Holistic Web

    Another article in my “Historical Perspective” series, this one is from my days working in the PR industry and dates from March 3rd, 2004. Recently I’ve been working on a number of ideas for increasing traffic and popularity for a couple Web sites. Someday, I may finalize these and put them into an easily digestible…

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  • It’s All About the Oil

    Another article pulled from the old Anthurian archives for the true “Historical Perspective” that it provides. This was originally posted on May 23rd, 2002. It’s interesting what you turn up when doing a Google search on the term “oil pipeline afghanistan”. I was looking for a more recent article regarding this subject but came across…

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  • Myth vs. Reality

    Another article in my continuing “Historical Perspective” series. This article was originally posted on October 15th, 2003. Some say that statistics don’t lie. Others tell us that statistics can be manipulated to show only one side of a story. Personally, I’d like to tell all the PR hacks out there that it’s not too wise…

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  • My Favorite Bands, Artists, Composers, and Musicians

    Here’s the first in my “Historical Perspective” series. This was originally posted on September 26th, 2003. Kenny came at me the other day with a list of his Top 105 Favorite Rock bands/musicians. Neither my personal experience, nor my CD collection, can even attempt to rival Kenny’s — a man who has a twenty year…

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