I managed to get the full post.
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I stand corrected - it was 1995 when MS contacted us. Initially Microsoft were showing me their new ActiveX technology they were developing. We worked with them for about a year building a version of the radio station site that worked beautifully with ActiveX (rotating 3D logos and stuff too). And then when they released their new browser we were in the favorites of the UK edition for a while. When Netscape 2 came out in about March 1996 with Javascript & plugins we started letting our radio programs pop-up in that browser too (previously I believe we had to build a frameset to keep the player in) that's when ABC-web was formed. Initially we used the Consoles across all our Freesites seeing tremendous increases in traffic - we only brought the collective consoles out in approx January 1997 - FM was the first to sign up and had button #1.
So, in the adult arena there's no way of knowing whether Jim's implementation was before or after our Freesite consoles. But in non-adult...
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