Due to a horrendous amount of trackback spam over the last two days (about 300 trackbacks), I've turned trackbacks off entirely. I've not seen any good use of them in the years I've been blogging (I'm the only one who ever trackbacks my own postings anyhow), so I think this will be a permanent change. If anyone has any opinions on this though (which I doubt), feel free to voice them. I just wanted to give a heads up in case someone had their heart set on being able to trackback one of my posts. :-P
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Can't say I've ever used one either
I can't say that I've gotten much use out of them either.
Trackback always struck me as a solution looking for a problem. I know all the cool kids get all breathless and worked up how about nifty it is, but I could never get too excited about it.
Course all the cool kids are all worked up about how cool web apps and thin computing are.
We used to call the back ends "main frames" and the front ends "terminals". God forbid you use those terms now as people will call you a dinosaur.
Thin computing & web apps are not too far removed from that old model in so many respects it's just amazing.
It's stuning how what goes around comes around
Norman, I've noticed that trend, too. I heard talk a while back about how some company was pushing to make computers such that everything they did was stored on a central system over the net, and everything you did was that way. Your whole OS was just to access the net and you'd do everything that way. Nothing local. The main difference between these webapps and terminal/mainframe is that it's being done on a larger scale, and it isn't necessary, as computers are small enough.
jdiwnab
France did thtat with their county wide system (minitel) system starting in 1982 (yes 82)
Wikipedia has some interetsing notes on it and other systems.
Web apps have one big drawback. If your not connected they mostly don't work. Same for mainframe stuff.
Today net access is more prevalent but not pervasive. There are large portions of countries that have lots of people doing lots of work but having no/limited access.
Until that happens web apps will not be dominant (ie/ Salesforce.com does no good if yo ucan't get online which is why they are now selling a component for offline usage as well)