The Old New Thing

August 24, 2005 - The Old New Thing

Marymoor Park summer movie series 2005 is nearly over

August 24, 2005 Aug 24, 2005 08/24/05
Raymond Chen
Every Wednesday evening in August of this year, Marymoor Park will be showing a movie. Tonight's movie is Bend It Like Beckham. The movie begins at dusk, and a $5 donation is suggested, proceeds to be shared between the park and a local charity. The charity tends to be thematically related to the movie; for Beckham, for example, part of the ...

A ticket to the Windows 95 launch

August 24, 2005 Aug 24, 2005 08/24/05
Raymond Chen
A limited number of seats at the Windows 95 launch were available to the product team, so there was a lottery to see who would get one of those tickets. The remainder of the team would be standing on bleachers hidden behind the stage, to be unveiled at the grand climax of the product launch festivities. I happened to have been a winner ...

Buying an entire Egghead Software store

August 24, 2005 Aug 24, 2005 08/24/05
Raymond Chen
During the development of Windows 95 (which released to the public ten years ago today), application compatibility was of course a very high priority. To make sure that coverage was as broad as possible, the development manager for Windows 95 took his pick-up truck, drove down to the local Egghead Software store (back when Egghead ...