Re: How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract?

Chris Sonnack <Chris@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Richard Heathfield writes:
>
>>> Some of it, I'm sure, is a general corporate conservativeness. The
>>> internet was a "new fangled thang" until fairly recently. (You can get
>>> away with that when the company is 100+ years old and had 20 billion USD
>>> in sales last year. :-)
>>
>> I am fairly sure HTML pre-dates PDF.
>
> Is it? I'm not so sure, but I don't really have a clue. Be interesting
> to check into, though, 'cause now I'm curious!

According to the first hits on Google for "HTML history" and "PDF
history", HTML dates from 1989 and PDF dates from 1991.
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