> My coworker (who uses Windows 95) was having trouble downloading a self-extracting archive off the net. In an attempt to make it easier to open the file with WinZIP, he associated *.EXE with WinZIP.
> Nothing worked after that. Every program he tried to run would load WinZIP first. He couldn't even run REGEDIT to delete the association.
> If built correctly it's genuinely difficult to mess things up.
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) [0], Indian Institue of Management - Ahmedabad [1], and (the not so known) Physical Research Laboratory [3], premier institutions in India, all of them founded by the same person - Vikram Sarabhai. Each of them stood the test of time.
Given the situation of all other government run institutions in India, ISRO is truly a marvel. Maybe "it's genuinely difficult to mess things up"!
Firefox uses PDF.js[1] to render pdf. This is a standalone project to render pdf in the browser using html and js. If I remember correctly, you can even render pdf in chrome using this.
You gotta assume they will reconstruct generations of your family tree if they can from your chat history.