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Slides from a 2006 talk by Professor Shriram Krishnamurthi describing a true story of booking travel in the early days of the web. Popular Press.
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Slides from a 2006 talk by Professor Shriram Krishnamurthi describing a true story of booking travel in the early days of the web
Popular Press But when I clicked on the National [car rental] price […], the site responded with this message: “You have back-buttoned too far”. This was my first experience with “back-button” as a verb. […] Since that was patently untrue, I decoded its true meaning: “We ran out [of cars]”. –M. Slatalla, New York Times, 2003-07-17