Subj : Re: How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract?
To   : comp.programming
From : Ben Pfaff
Date : Wed Aug 17 2005 06:53 pm

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Chris Sonnack <Chris@Sonnack.com> writes:

> Richard Heathfield writes:
>
>>> Some of it, I'm sure, is a general corporate conservativeness.  The
>>> internet was a "new fangled thang" until fairly recently.  (You can get
>>> away with that when the company is 100+ years old and had 20 billion USD
>>> in sales last year. :-)
>> 
>> I am fairly sure HTML pre-dates PDF.
>
> Is it?  I'm not so sure, but I don't really have a clue.  Be interesting
> to check into, though, 'cause now I'm curious!

According to the first hits on Google for "HTML history" and "PDF
history", HTML dates from 1989 and PDF dates from 1991.
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