Retro68

Or: how fifty-nine builds taught me that someone has to own the state, and why I shipped b59 with the seams still showing. Last week I put Spotify on Mac OS 9 over Gopher. That post ended with a small confession baked into the architecture: the “client” on the OS 9 side was Netscape Communicator, browsing gopher menus. It worked — Netscape speaks gopher:// natively, and a menu of tracks is just text — but it’s a browser wearing a remote-control costume. Every action was a page load. There was no queue, no now-playing that updated on its own, no seek bar, no app. ...