About the Author

The first computer Joe Follansbee worked on was a DEC mainframe (he thinks), installed in the bowels of the Kingdome (now demolished) in Seattle in the early 1980s. The second computer was an Apple MacIntosh, which he used to write papers in 1986 while he was a student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. The third computer he played with was actually a workstation at The Daily Tidings in Ashland, Ore., where he was a reporter. There was a succession of computers at radio news jobs, including a generic PC with an Intel 286 processor at Minnesota Public Radio. That’s where he heard about streaming media. When he took a job at Progressive Networks (now RealNetworks) in 1996, he used a PC with an early Pentium processor. ...

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