So Awesome @AaronGustafson moved the web standards project site and it's back up, but do remember it's as ancient as my back molar. Lots of historical value there for sure! Fact: Aaron and I first co-presented on CSS 2.0(?) last minute at what I believe was the final Comdex! (1).

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We winged the presentation FTW!. Comdex was huge, 300,00 folks filling half of Las Vegas. It was ancient times before social media, iPhones, MBPs, Android, "smart" tech, gmail, Chrome, it sounds so weird but it was a really optimistic Web then. Here we are later on a SXSW panel.
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2003 was the last show and than it only had 40,000 attendees. It went bankrupt soon thereafter and was almost bought by Microsoft. I went to at least six or more of them and the one with 300,000 people was close to the end. Comdex had close to 200 shows in Vegas. Different world!
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I. Was. So. Nervous. Kelly might have a photo of us from the audience… I’ll ask. I think I have my XHTML talk on CD somewhere around here too. It was the start of a beautiful friendship! And it helped, in no small way, to launch my career. Thank you!
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No, thank you! It was such a natural thing how we just fell together and didn't miss a beat. Bill set us up ;-) I do remember walking around and seeing people sleeping on the floor of the convention center. Bill is now a Grandpa. Kelly Goto? We're in touch. can ask re SXSW photo.
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