{"id":1000426,"date":"2007-02-23T19:29:08","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T00:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/2007\/02\/23\/peter-coffees-25-killer-apps-of-all-time\/"},"modified":"2007-02-28T07:58:24","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T12:58:24","slug":"peter-coffees-25-killer-apps-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/2007\/02\/23\/peter-coffees-25-killer-apps-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Coffee&#8217;s 25 Killer Apps of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Coffee&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/slideshow\/0,1206,pg=0&amp;s=26705&amp;a=196169,00.asp\">list<\/a> seems about right, though Mac OS X is an OS and a GUI shell, not an app. Throw that away and there&#8217;s room for one more. <\/p>\n<p>The only mistake here is the inclusion of Internet Explorer 1.0. That was a horrid product no one used. That should be replaced by Mosaic 1.0, which was far more significant to the development of the Web, and likely had many more users to boot. In fact, few versions of IE had any real significance. Mostly they just copied other browsers and got bundled with Windows. Just maybe you could count IE 5 as a killer app, since that&#8217;s the one that introduced <code>XMLHttpRequest<\/code>, which would become the basis for AJAX and Web 2.0. That&#8217;s probably the only significant innovation Microsoft&#8217;s ever made in the browser space.  But <abbr>IE<\/abbr> 1.0 simply does not belong in this list. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Coffee&#8217;s list seems about right, though Mac OS X is an OS and a GUI shell, not an app. Throw that away and there&#8217;s room for one more. The only mistake here is the inclusion of Internet Explorer 1.0. That was a horrid product no one used. That should be replaced by Mosaic 1.0, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-development","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}