XML Mentioned in Mainstream Commercial

[Dan Vint]

That was Microsoft sponsoring that one. It was pretty cool to finally see
some of this stuff hitting the public airwaves like that.

..dan

At 08:24 PM 2/3/00 -0600, W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
>This is completely non-technical, but I just saw a commercial in prime
>time (Frasier, 8:00pm CST Thursday 3 Feb) that mentioned XML. I didn't
>catch the company (some e-business something or other), but it shows
>three people in an elevator, two talking about the third, saying "He
>probably doesn't even know what X M L is [they twitter]". 
>
>This was a moment I've been waiting for for a long time--the mention of
>XML in some completely mainstream, non-technical context.
>
>Cheers,
>
>E.
>
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