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December 1998
December 31, 1998
The Perils of Pauline: Y2K Minus One and Relief is Nowhere in Sight
December 24, 1998
Bah, Humbug!: The All-Too-Real Limits of Internet Holiday Shopping
December 17, 1998
Better to Start a Single Generator Than to Curse the Darkness:: Reflections on a Seven-Hour Blackout
December 10, 1998
Valley of the Nerds: Who Really Invented the Multiprotocol Router, and Why Should We Care?
December 3, 1998
Check and Mate?: How Microsoft Just Might Beat the DOJ After All
November 1998
November 25, 1998
Butt-out Netscape and AOL!: Don't You Know I Have a TV Show Airing This Week?
November 19, 1998
For Tomorrow We Comply: Why Microsoft's Competitors Should Be Merry, If Only for a Moment
November 12, 1998
What's Wrong With Being Entertained?: I Want My Digital TV
November 5, 1998
Where is Eleanor Roosevelt When We Need Her?: Why the Linux World is Upset and Shouldn't Be
October 1998
October 29, 1998
What's in a Name?: Why Windows 2000 Means More Than You'd Guess
October 22, 1998
Microsoft and Me: How Microsoft Has Already Been Crippled by the Department of Justice
October 15, 1998
Monica and McLuhan: What Would the Late Media Guru Have Said About News and the World Wide Web?
October 8, 1998
Through a Loophole, Darkly: Why the Internet Exemption From Taxes is Not Entirely a Good Thing
October 1, 1998
Baloney, You Say: Bob Takes the Foot Out of His Mouth to Revisit Some Old Topics
September 1998
September 24, 1998
Free at Last!!: Why the Right Price for Your Next PC is Nothing
September 17, 1998
Close But No Cigar: Why the Starr Report Shows Not That the Internet Has Arrived, but That it Still Has Far to Go
September 10, 1998
A Fight to the Finnish: Why Linux Quite Appropriately Scares the Bejesus Out of Microsoft
September 3, 1998
Rocket Scientists of the World Unite!: Bob Thinks He Can Save the World, or at Least Sell it Some Really Good Insurance
August 1998
August 27, 1998
The Internet Equivalent of a Neutron Bomb: Why Electronic Commerce Might Well Kill Us on the Way to Making us Stronger
August 20, 1998
Taking the fifth: Why Microsoft has more than executive image at stake with Windows NT 5.0
August 14, 1998
Wherehouses and white elephants:: The first of many retail businesses is about to be Internet-ted to death
August 6, 1998
iMac, therefore I am.: Get ready for problems with the new iMacs, but don't blame me
July 1998
July 30, 1998
Cynicism attack!: Why the Electronic Frontier Foundation has to claim cryptography is dead in order to save cryptography
July 24, 1998
What the heck was that?: The first and last essay ever to be written about "Plane Crazy"
July 18, 1998
I'm not really a success, but I play one on TV:: The vital role of failure in Silicon Valley
July 9, 1998
You can't get there from here: Why Windows 98 is just one of many indicators that most companies don't really care about their customers
July 6, 1998
Oh no, it's the Cringely Channel!: How the Internet is about to revolutionize broadcast TV
June 1998
June 26, 1998
Judge not lest ye be judged: Why Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, not the Department of Justice, is the big loser in court this week
June 22, 1998
PowerPC to the people:: Why IBM and Motorola decided to end their PowerPC partnership and why it's really okay
June 18, 1998
At Mirabilis they make money the new-fashioned way: They don't earn it
June 4, 1998
Is God on the decimal system?: What's really likely to happen to your computer on January 1, 2000, and what the heck to do about it
May 1998
May 29, 1998
Sega, the once and future king of video games, has a plan to dominate personal computing, too:: And it just might work
May 23, 1998
Do these come with a second pair of pants?: Why Bill Gates is likely to be wearing his two new suits for a very long time
May 14, 1998
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!: Why the news from Apple is good, but not as good as it looks
May 7, 1998
Getting real: How Microsoft plans to dominate digital TV
April 1998
April 30, 1998
April 28, 1998
What kind of name is "Masters of Downloading?": How ending the culture of secrecy probably doesn't matter
April 16, 1998
The (spin) doctor isn't in: Why Microsoft is so inept about its public relations
April 9, 1998
The more things change, the more they stay the same: Why Microsoft isn't threatened by anything except nothing at all.
April 2, 1998
Beat the clock: Why the next generation of microprocessors may go faster by having no clock at all
March 1998
March 27, 1998
It's good enough for PC work: The heritage of unprofessionalism in the PC industry and why it is generally good
March 19, 1998
The man behind the iron mask: How Steve Jobs is planning to return Apple to greatness
March 13, 1998
The coming world of one cent per minute long distance: Why traditional phone companies are scared of the future even though they should not be
March 6, 1998
Mr. Gates goes to Washington: Why Microsoft and the U.S. government can't understand each other
February 1998
February 27, 1998
Mr. Watson, bring me a latte: New media technologies are appearing on the Internet every day, but most of them don't work yet
February 23, 1998
Media, schmedia: The (very small) difference between Matt Drudge and Walter Winchell
February 13, 1998
I'm a Seoul man: Bob takes on the prospect that Netscape is really for sale
February 6, 1998
There's no fool like an old fool: How I plan to overthrow the Internet just for the heck of it (and why you should help).
February 3, 1998
May the source be with you: Two important events that have nothing at all to do with Monica Lewinsky
January 1998
January 26, 1998
Where's that infomercial when you really need one?: How Language Adventure can help your kids make fun of you in six languages
January 20, 1998
What's in a name?: Why a sexy trademark is all Microsoft is ever likely to get back from WebTV
January 12, 1998
Steve Jobs has changed. Not!: Apple's interim CEO may look different, sound different, but it's really the world that's changed
January 5, 1998
The new year comes into high resolution: Cringely's top-10 sure-fire predictions for 1998