Mail to the Future
Wednesday, February 10, 1999 by Dave Winer.
Washington Post 
A great article in today's Washington Post, not about politics but about the always half-finished state of the web.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-02/10/193l-021099-idx.html
"In the end, it's the crazy ad-hoc nature of Web technology that makes the Internet explosion so lovable. If the Web masters slowed down long enough to make sure everything worked, they'd lose momentum."
(Aside: I'd like to talk with the Washington Post webmaster on the length of their URLS! They screw up my emails..)
In that spirit
So just as I'm about to start diggin a new hole, I'm reminded that I haven't announced the one we dug last week!
http://www.mailtothefuture.com/
It's an idea out of the science fiction books. A way to send a piece of email to yourself or someone else, not right now, but in the future!
It's a simple idea that's easy to use. It's also a demo app for Frontier 6, beyond Hello World, it's a lot like the early scriptable apps we did way back in 1991 when scripting was a single-machine proposition. Now, thru XML-RPC, we're reaching out over the net into all kinds of environments, and there are some lovely hidden Easter Eggs inside this little app.
http://www.mailtothefuture.com/public/techInfo
I'll write about the Easter Eggs later. Now it's time to go back and dig some more..
Seeya!