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Looking to have some fun this weekend and want to spend a few minutes taking a trip down memory lane? How about taking Network World's browsing test here. (link corrected) No, we aren't talking about verifying your HTML code, just your general knowledge of browser-based trivia. There are questions on the origins of Netscape (remember them?), what was the first Apple browser that pre-dated Safari, and questions about who really invented the browser. Some of the questions are very easy and some will take some study, or at least the ability to bring up Google and ask the right question. At least we don't write about the "browser wars" anymore.

And here is a short historical treatment in a great infographic by Jacob Gube .

AOL has been in the news this week with changing the face of tech journalism once again, as we wrote about here. So I started going down memory lane and the list of their acquisitions over the past couple of decades. It is an interesting selection of mostly misplaced investments. But what struck me was how AOL was in the right place, but not necessarily at the right time or for the right price. And many of these buys enabled Internet gazillionaires to flourish and found their own tech ventures later on that were key players in our industry.