Hello and

welcome to episode 162 of the Thinking Elsat podcast in Los Angeles.

I'm Nathan Fox with me in Vienna, Virginia is Ben Olson.

Ben what's going on? I know you're busy. Yeah it's been a little crazy morning I've been

working on the demon for a couple hours just going through and finding things that people have pointed out to us and trying to make them better.

Yeah, and we're doing another development sprint on Friday and hopefully things are going to be rock solid after that?

Yeah, you know it's kind of weird when I was working this morning it felt I had deja vu.

Okay.

So a long time ago when I was in college, I was doing this exact same thing for my university.

I was working on the English 115 class and it was going online and it was the first time classes were going online and it was the first class to go online for the school as far as I remember and back then the two competing browsers were Internet Explorer and do you remember

the other one? Uh, uh, uh, uh,

Netscape. You got it, yeah, Netscape. And I think Netscape may have been

more popular, although, uh, I don't know if you remember remember but Bill Gates forced everyone to

take Internet Explorer with their Windows. Yes I do remember that. Yeah and people

complain about that but anyway I just remember we would be developing some feature for the class and it would work in one browser but wouldn't work in another and although we don't really have we do have some browser issues right now most of those are have kind of gone away.

Everybody's on so many different screen sizes now, right?

And so trying to make it work for everybody

is a challenge, especially with something like reading comp when you have to make sure that the

lines line up the written text on a piece of paper. So it's been fun fun but as it gets better and better it's exciting you know your

definition of fun and exciting is slightly different from my definition to fun and

exciting but we've learned that over the years.

Yeah, I think so.

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